Dan Van Clapp

Art that looks like present day junk but at one time, in the past, was the product of our government spending billions of dollars.

My father was an aeronautical engineer who spent his life protecting our country from the Russians during the “cold war.” Was it a real threat? My father, after he retired, said it was “hogwash.”  The piece I call Cash for Trash is a direct comment on government spending that leads to obsolescence; an old scrape jet engine that finds its way to a homeless person’s shopping cart.  Did it help him, will it feed him, or is it just another oddity in his collection?  Of course, the jet engine is not real nor is there a homeless owner of the shopping cart; but there could be.

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