Hooks for our van
In keeping with the water theme from our "to pull" project, I've decided to go with the flow... pun intended. Water is my life source. It brings me joy in all its forms. Clean drinking water, gentle rain while I sit in hot springs, snow, and of course rivers to raft. Growing up in the west, water has always been a source of recreation for me. Canoeing and fishing my way through childhood has given way to paddle boarding around the plains lakes. As the climate shifts, so do the waters. Where once a migratory bird sanctuary, is now just mud flats. This changed in my lifetime and concern runs deep for the future of our waterways and all that thrive with them. There has been talk of big dams not having enough water to supply hydroelectric power for years. It boggles my mind that stricter guidelines are not being enforced and more native grasses and plants are not being planted around the new construction at UW and around the west as a whole. Diversity. Isn't that what makes the world more interesting? Plants and species thriving in a native climate... Soooo, on that note, back to water. I love that water finds its own balance, filling and conforming to the space it has... And space, our van is empty of anything FUNctional other than a bed at this point. So, hooks. Hooks that look like waves and water are my "to hang" project. In searching for wave/water/river hooks, nothing came up at all for what I envision, so it's hard to conceptualize what material I would use as currently I only know how to weld pencil rod. I like the steel shop and would like to push my skills and learn new techniques, maybe blacksmithing? I know there are options, I just don't know what they are...
These are my hook ideas. The octopus is the closest thing I could find to a "wave hook" concept.
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