Scrap

Scrap is valued the world over. Turned into artworks and fashioned into buildings, it is recognized for its beauty and emotional value. Conserving big, old, rusty implements and appliances requires space, but that turns out to be plentiful: rows of cars stretching through swampy woods in Georgia, inhabited fragments of aircraft fuselage in Bangkok, telephone boxes with flaking red paint in England, and long chains of busses, trolleys, trams and trains in an American forest. Enchanting places, and not surprisingly, the people who collect and cherish, restore and recycle this scrap are themselves pretty picturesque.