A Museum Worthy Basket I love decorating with baskets.  These "master" baskets are really special!  I stumbled upon them on the  websit...

Heat-setting is the crucial last step to make your painted denim permanent, washable, and wearable.

This piece was made in reaction to one of the most famous cliffhanger murder mysteries ever conceived. Penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in serial installments, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was never actually completed due to the untimely death of its author on the cusp of its final chapters. Since its publication as an incomplete book, societies of ‘Droodians’ – groups of people who study the illustrations and Conan Doyle’s somewhat cryptic notes for the book, constructing and arguing for a variety of endings – have formed. I viewed my constructed ‘secret door’ book, a somewhat non-descript edition, as the prized piece of a higher-up in one of these fantastic Droodian societies. I imagine him proudly displaying the piece to the confusion of many, while saving its hidden treasure – the ‘actual’ ending – for times when, perhaps, he’s had one too many brandies and lets slip the fact that he really knows who did it, and how the story was supposed to end. My imagination uses the book-as-object, constructing involved and mystery-shrouded plots of thievery - or even murder! - at the hands of a desperate Droodian who hears the secret and wants the prize for himself. I imagine dark Victorian landscapes, deceptively plaintive country parsonages, and dank crypts holding sinister evidence, echoing the beautiful state of mind evoked by Conan Doyle in Drood, as well as the adventures of his serial sleuther, Sherlock Holmes.

Photo taken by Stefan Röhrich. München-Riem 1977-09-23 (23 September 1977) G-ASHZ Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair 27249/9 British Air Ferries (BAF) G-ASHZ was noted at Riem a number of times in 1975 (29 June), 1977 (9 February, 22 September, 23 September, 9 December) and 1978 (26 April, 23 May, 18 September, 19 September). Information from flickr (thanks corkspotter): Originally a USAAF C-54B 44-9023, before being converted into Carvair No.9 as G-ASHZ for British United Air Ferries (BUAF). It later served with Falcon Airways as N89FA and later owned by Mercantile National Bank of Dallas, James Blumenthal, Custom Air Service, Academy Airlines, Custom Air Service, and Gator Global Flying Service. Stored at Gainesville Municipal Airport (KGLE), USA, this is one of only two Carvairs still left in existence (along with c/n 27314/21 9J-PAA which is stored in South Africa). The most recent picture I've found is from January 2019. A detailed portrait of G-ASHZ can be found here: saadonline.uk/archives/1044 This airframe as G-ASHZ with BUAF at SEN in 1964: www.flickr.com/photos/25571261@N02/9250665040 This airframe as G-ASHZ with BAF (earlier colours): www.flickr.com/photos/artycrafty/5487316134 G-ASHZ together with G-AOFW at Exeter (later BAF colours): www.flickr.com/photos/78842886@N07/7475283356 This airframe as G-ASHZ with BAF at Riem in April 1978: www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/48189085396 This airframe as N89FA in December 2018: www.flickr.com/photos/86225437@N08/45477545495 This airframe as N89FA in January 2019 at KGLE: www.jetphotos.com/photo/9213639 Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Kindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth. München-Riem 1978-04-26 (26 April 1978) G-ASHZ Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair 27249/9 British Air Ferries (BAF) G-ASHZ was noted at Riem a number of times in 1975 (29 June), 1977 (9 February, 22 September, 23 September, 9 December) and 1978 (26 April, 23 May, 18 September, 19 September). Information from flickr (thanks corkspotter): Originally a USAAF C-54B 44-9023, before being converted into Carvair No.9 as G-ASHZ for British United Air Ferries (BUAF). It later served with Falcon Airways as N89FA and later owned by Mercantile National Bank of Dallas, James Blumenthal, Custom Air Service, Academy Airlines, Custom Air Service, and Gator Global Flying Service. Stored at Gainesville Municipal Airport (KGLE), USA, this is one of only two Carvairs still left in existence (along with c/n 27314/21 9J-PAA which is stored in South Africa). The most recent picture I've found is from January 2019. A detailed portrait of G-ASHZ can be found here: saadonline.uk/archives/1044 This airframe as G-ASHZ with BUAF at SEN in 1964: www.flickr.com/photos/25571261@N02/9250665040 This airframe as G-ASHZ with BAF (earlier colours): www.flickr.com/photos/artycrafty/5487316134 G-ASHZ together with G-AOFW at Exeter (later BAF colours): www.flickr.com/photos/78842886@N07/7475283356 This airframe as G-ASHZ with BAF at Riem in September 1977: www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/49465597791 This airframe as N89FA in December 2018: www.flickr.com/photos/86225437@N08/45477545495 This airframe as N89FA in January 2019 at KGLE: www.jetphotos.com/photo/9213639 Scan from Kodachrome slide.