around the corner from our studio on the road by the river is a house we have admired for years before we knew the dweller. c. keen zero lives here with his cats and he has created and urban oasis filling it with found objects and assemblages. most prominent is his tv wall; tv tubes cast in concrete. at the other end is a golden buddha keeping watch. when we visited, keen was throwing four chimney pipes for a house in atlanta. when asked, he will say he is an “artist handy man”. his house says the same.
[...] Above the door is a picture of her first year on Athens City Council, the nameplate from her stint as head of the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, and a Ho Chi Minh souvenir from her 2006 visit to Hanoi. Custom cabinets by David Graves store all and the plate rack features local pottery from Rebecca Wood and Keen Zero. [...]
I’ve always driven by that house and admired the tv wall and the sculpture with the bowling balls and wondered who lived there. Thnaks so much for this post!
i have always loved that tv wall myself!