Switching From One Flyer Rack To Another
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Previous subscribers and readers might remember, way back earlier in 2025, when a windfall of abandoned real estate guide bins from the Aughts led to an idle summer project of converting them into St. Remedius flyer bins. Well, that started just before an emergency kitchen renovation blocked off access to kitchen and garage for over three months. Now that the kitchen is back in order, the summer heat finally let up, and there’s enough free time to get back to work, we return to the rack conversions, already in progress.
Last installment showed off the first of the new flyer racks from the outside, and now it’s time to move to the other. As opposed to the Kirby Dot assemblage, this one is reasonably subtle…if you call reflective foliage “subtle.”
One of the requirements for the flyer racks was to use as much material previously from the old Texas Triffid Ranch gallery as possible, and part of what came out of the Triffid Ranch was a truly ridiculous amount of artificial foliage. The idea here was to use silk and plastic air plants, bromeliads, carnivorous plants, and philodendrons to leave the shape of the original house as intact as possible, while giving it a whole new perspective. As such, an absolute about using silk plants is that no matter how many you use in a project, you need even more, and this single bin used one of three big storage bins worth of plants. Naturally, the plan is to make more racks to use up the rest of the plants, so one day…
As mentioned last Interlude, the design of the original real estate guide rack had a truly impressive amount of space in the “eaves,” which combined with the cheesy windows in the front, became a perfect opportunity to add some extra attractions. It won’t be outside, and certainly not in typical Texas spring floods, so why not experiment?
In this case, frugality is the mother of invention. Back last decade, American Science & Surplus used to offer markdown sales on plastic tyrannosaur skeletons: they were remarkably accurate kits with an aluminum rod to support the head and spinal column, and as an attraction to get people to visit the Triffid Ranch booth at shows and events, I augmented the skeletons with unique paint jobs, touched up with strontium-europium glow powder as inspired by Scott Elyard’s painting Trikeratos. Well, one of the skeletons was damaged at a plant show, and while the original plan was to incorporate the pieces in a carnivorous plant enclosure, time and focus got away from me in the last two years of the gallery, so the pieces were relegated to a storage tub. Here, the tub was cleaned out, the bones trimmed, and the front of the skeleton installed in a foam backdrop in the flyer bin interior.
A peek through the window gives an idea of what to expect, with more silk and plastic plants going inside to fill things out. Put acrylic windows over the flyer rack window holes to keep out dust and inquisitive fingers, and we’re nearly ready to put this rack out in the wild. But first, let’s hint about the big button on the front of both racks.
To be continued…
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