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Meh, I guess I don't see the point to this. I am an engineer at a tech company, and I see taken-apart things all day everyday. If someone here took a bunch of pieces and tacked them to white bristol board in a geometric way and called it art, I'm sure a lot of people in this building would be offended. The viewer of these photos doesn't get any insight into how the object works... they only get insight into the fact that they will never understand how the object works.

But then again, some art just escapes me. I guess thats why I am an engineer.

What makes these compositions "art" is that they look at objects or ideas in a new way. I can see how this would be less than thought provoking for an engineer, who examines the guts of things and how they work all day long.

For some folks, these images might inspire them to take something apart, or to examine their relationship with a common object. Realizing how much you don't know can be quite an education.

yeah I think there might be some thrill in the discovery of what the "thing" is - it takes a little time to understand "oh that's an iron - wow never seen one like that before" The inside out view is new to a lot of people. I understand the attempt and the potential for reading deeper into the concept as I hold a mfa in studio art. Here, for me, the compositions aren't quite daring enough. I think there needs to be a more blatant indication this is an artistic endeavor - these, to me, still look a little too close to just an ordinary workbench. Maybe trying compositions with more negative space between parts? Maybe there is something about the evenness of the spacing of the various parts that needs to break down? I understand the potential for lackluster response as a techie who has disassembled and modded electrical and electronic things my whole life.