FALMOUTH – Consider the piano table: the innards of a piano artfully assembled into an inexact shape. Pieces of glass cover parts of the top, so it can actually be used as a table. But other parts are left exposed so that the piano strings can be played. It comes with a rubber-tipped mallet to do just that.
There are three legs, which, if you drew lines between them, would form a proper triangle. But the table top shape is more of a parallogram with two parallel sides but the other two sides are not mirror images. One has a more dramatic curve of the white wooden frame that surrounds the table.
And just in case anyone does not realize they are looking at the inside of a piano, there is a set of black and white keys—12 white, 9 black, in piano formation—in the upper left corner.
This piece, called “Inside Out,” is one of Falmouth artist Sue Beardsley’s distinct works in her current exhibit, called “Trash Nothing!” at Falmouth Art Center.
The exhibit is on display to August 31. The Falmouth Art Center is located at 137 Gifford Street in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
A red dot is on the label of the piano table and on almost half the pieces in the show. The red dot means a piece has sold.
Sue Beardsley’s piece “Inside Out” is a table made out of the insides of a piano.
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Beardsley’s work, equal mixes of whimsy, creativity and quirkiness, is popular. She also prices them to sell. For someone who is always creating with glass, metal, fiber, mosaic, plastic, wood and found objects of all types, she needs to move things out to make room for more creations.
The titles of her pieces are part of the fun: “Dumpster Magnificence,” Beardsley said, “is made up of tiny shards of multi-colored glass fused into a circle after being gathered from a mid-winter dumpster dive. The shards are broken Christmas ornaments made by Cape Cod Glass.”
As an aside, one of Beardsley’s grandchildren once asked to be taken on a “dumpster dive” for her birthday present.
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