These are not smooth surfaces. They cut, scrape, and insist on their presence. To piece them together is to accept the risk, beauty forged out of resistance.
Always it is my preference to use repurposed materials. To sit with the possibility of what they could be if I manipulated them. It is the same with myself. To take what was already there, used a bit, cast aside, and try to recreate it into something different, beautiful, worthy.