This won't be a long post since I'm not ready to put up a lot of pictures about Lino Giovacchini yet. However, I had such a funny experience with him this weekend that I wanted to share it while it was fresh in my mind. Many of you know Lino as the "tractor guy." He makes these detailed model tractors out of spruce. (If you know him, then you know that the tractor being made out of spruce is significant. He's crazy about wood and can tell you why spruce is the best wood for his tractors.) Lino's workshop is so organized and has every woodworking tool imaginable. I certainly can't name all the tools: lathe, sanders, drill press, etc. - and everything is expertly arranged. I'll tell you about the expert arrangement in another post. Lino is very gracious and always feeds me and makes sure I have tea when I visit him to take pictures. During my last visit, he gave me some cookies his wife had made. The next day, he called and told me that he got in trouble with Linda because he didn't give me the rest of the cookies to take home. When I came by to pick them up, I called to him in his workshop. He came out, and I asked him what he was working on. He said, "I'm just sewing....I'll show you in a minute." I thought, "Sewing? Is that a woodworking term?"
After he got the cookies, Lino took me in the workshop and showed me this huge industrial sewing machine. I hadn't seen it before because it had been neatly tucked away in it's proper spot, just like everything else in Lino's studio. And, in fact, Lino was sewing. He was making straps with handles out of heavy duty fabric so that he could turn his mattresses more easily. It wasn't art but it still seemed pretty creative to me.
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AuthorTiffanie Heben is a photographer who has been inspired by the artists in her community |