Casanova's Hardware

I came across this odd structure standing beside a reno site in a swanky N.Vancouver suburb last summer.  Fascinated by the chain and hooks covered in bright paint and burrowing rust, I took a whole series of photos but haven't known quite what to do with them or how to broach the subject on this blog.

Who is/was the Carmel Casanova and what was he doing hanging out in N.Van?

What sort of nefarious activities were these devious devices intended for?

And how/when could I address this topic here?

Well, enter Bonnie of Pixel Dust Photo Art who suggested the theme of HARDWARE for this weekend's virtual art gallery of transformed photos that she hosts on her blog.

Just the excuse I needed to pull out the chains and hooks and screws and bolts that I'd been keeping hidden away in my bag of photographic tricks.

I will leave it up to your own vivid imaginations 

to figure out what uses

 that Carmel Casanova might have intended for this thingamabob.

My own intention for it was to have a bit of fun with layers of textures and effects in Photoshop.

It was a rather dizzying undertaking...

  and I soon felt the need to brew a pot of Japanese tea to revive my spirits. 

In a future post or two, I will dish out some more of these kinky quirky implements but meanwhile, should you wish to see some other fine examples of altered hardware pix, take a little stroll over to Bonnie's fine art gallery 
and hardware store;
it's never closed.