My old fence panel became a pretty solid abstract painting after a storm

I went out to grab my packages last Tuesday and noticed one of the cedar fence panels in the back had snapped clean in half from the wind. The wood had this wild pattern where the grain was all splintered and twisted, and rain had soaked one side darker than the other. It genuinely looked like one of those textured paintings you'd see in a gallery for a few hundred bucks. I propped it up against my garage and kept staring at it for like five minutes. Has anyone else found art in something that just got wrecked by the weather?

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garcia.charles7d ago

Last summer a weird sideways hailstorm tore through my yard and left this old steel trash can lid looking like a cratered moon surface. The dents caught the light in a way that made it look like some kind of modern metal sculpture. You could stare at it for a while and keep finding new shapes in the shadows. I actually dragged it into my workshop and hung it on the wall for a few months before my wife convinced me it was just a beat up lid. Sometimes nature does better art than most people can on purpose.

karen_sanchez107d agoProlific Poster

My buddy Dave found this old rusted hubcap in a ditch behind his garage a couple years ago. It was all twisted up and had this weird green patina on it from sitting in mud for god knows how long. He cleaned it up and put it on a shelf in his living room, said it reminded him of a dried up riverbed or something. His girlfriend kept making jokes about it being "ditch art" until he finally threw it away lmao. But honestly it did look kinda cool, like a found object piece you'd see in a gallery downtown. Nature really does have a way of messing things up in the most interesting ways lol.