Angler Brooch by Caleb Witvoet
Angler, 2025. Found on 52.081151, 4.320212 at 13:14, 15/11/2024. The wood is recycled from broken skateboards--sugar maple plywood--and I pick the pieces of wire from the curb, discarded by rotary street sweepers. These flat wires are bevelled naturally from abrading against the street at a set angle.
The initial idea for the series is that it doubles as an implement for scratching/graffiti. The pin wires come from rotary street sweepers which are designed to brush dirt and debris from the street. The carbon-steel bristles abrade slightly as they sweep, especially on brick roads here in the Netherlands. I'm subverting that uniformity with the addition of the skateboard, street skateboarding being an urban practice that literally leaves it's mark on architecture in the city. What once effected uniformity on the bristle brush is made into a pin representing individual expression.