Early last year, when I was in France, I found a stash of wonderfully rusty implements, stuffed into a deep crevice in an old wall. I don’t know why they were hidden away like that, but the keys are these great big ‘storybook’ ones that should be hanging off the belt of a wizard. The triangular tools are some kind of scraper and are particularly lovely things. Anyway, I had them all sand-blasted to remove the worst of the crud, and then—because they looked so shiny—I invested in some patina liquid used by horologists to re-rust them. Ultimately, they are destined to go back to the house in France—box-mounted—to reside on an inside wall where all their charm and character can be appreciated.
These images—produced for The Kick-About No.129—were created using cyanotype paper on a day when the sun was soft and low in the sky, hence the three-dimensionality of the shadows. I inverted the images digitally for the graphical quality of the tools themselves, but otherwise, everything else is as it was on the day.
Red's Kingdom 
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