Attic Window Sentinel

Bright southern light streamed through the attic window and lit up the green beadboard that covered the sloped ceiling and the walls. A barn owl came and went through the window, unhampered by screen or glass. The glazing had dried to dust, allowing the glass panes to drop out and break on the porch roof below. Cleaned of the soot layer left from years of kerosene lamps, some of the green beadboard has become the side panels for Attic Window Sentinel.

The green door panel is cut from the shell of a surplus military generator. The window section in the panel frames a rusted-out piece of feed mill sheet metal. Gold leaf provides the “back-lighting.” The door handle once served as a slide-gate handle on a burr grinder feed mill. Top “caps” are Oliver equipment bearing races. The case wood is painted with green and pink milk paint.