72 by 7 is a piece that grown up from old web covered wooden board that was found in a damp. Marks of mold, cracks and holes of a wood worm looked beautiful. This wooden board had it's own character.
Due to the look of nails and some other holding systems that were attached to the board it was defined that the wood use to be a part of the Waterways construction, possibly used in some part of a Victorian Lock.
All old Victorian handmaid nails were deleted and replaced with handmaid porcelain nails sculpted specifically for that wooden board. To represent the story of the wood the Waterways map was printed to the tops of the porcelain nails. This wood came from somewhere on this map. The size of standard Victorian Lock is approximately seventy two by seven feets.
Little letters encourage viewer to come closer... and so to notice the beauty of all little cracks, holes and naturally created and preserved patterns of the wood.
72 x 7
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