Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien (Script Writer & Presenter), Yiru Rocky Huang (Photography & Editing)
Lead-safety Message: “Make your kitchen veggie garden and rainwater not only sustainable but lead-safe and eat organic lead detox foods to get the lead out of your body.”
Materials: iPhone video edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Artist: Phoenix Jewson
Age: 3
Lead-safety Message: On my farm the soil is lead-safe but in the city it is best to have a protective layer of rubber matting and/or grass under swings in case of lead-contaminated soil.
Description of Work: 13 second android phone video directed by the subject: Phoenix Jewson
Youtube URL: https://youtu.be/qcwkleyJZX8
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-safety Message: Stop leaded soil track-in with wet washable towels at the back door. After washing a load and laying the towels back down wet from the machine, wet-wipe down the machine and run a cycle with no washing to clean the bowl for ordinary clothes washing.
Description of Work: Photo and online LEAD Group images and text combined in Powerpoint.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-safety Message: Lead-containing sap buckets can be a significant source of lead and should be replaced with aluminum, stainless steel or food grade plastic buckets. Terneplate and galvanized buckets with lead solder contain lead and should not be used! https://andersonsmaplesyrup.com/pdf/lead_best_practices.pdf
Description of Work: Headspace 26 Oct 2022 video “Sweet Lessons from the Mighty Maple”, The Wake Up – iPhone screen-shots collaged by Elizabeth O’Brien. Message by Anderson’s Maple Syrup, USA.
Artist: Tim Pye
Lead-safety Message: You may be surprised about where lead can be found, or not.
Description of Work: This is a collage of photographs of a series of tests using LeadCheck swabs. Points to note are that no colour change is seen on a lead crystal glass, on paint overlaying lead paint, and on the Minnie Mouse mug that I had used for years. No applause for the makers of the last item.
Artist: Sarah Nolan
Lead-safety Message: Clean and seal
Description of Work: Revealed 19th Century Advertising that was once on an external wall, but has been revealed as now an internal wall that will be a feature wall of a living room. The advertising was for two newspapers, The Evening News (1867-1931) and the Town and Country Journal (1870_1919) published by Samuel Bennett.
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