Fakery

My friends' son, Will, was fourteen years old in the summer of 1998

when he, his parents, and I went for a hike around Signal Hill. At

the Battery Hotel, halfway up the hill, there was a big metal globe, a

WW2 anti-submarine-net buoy, on display as historical paraphernalia.

The hotel painted it several times with whimsical images, here an

ancient-looking map of the world. The globe stood on a piece of steel

I-girder on that concrete plinth. I took several pictures of Will

acting like he was trying to pick it up. The globe probably weighed a

quarter ton and he wasn't about to move it.



When I came across the slides last week, and scanned them, I thought

they were calling to me to do some 21st-century fakery. I gave in to

the temptation and produced this pair of pictures.