I went to the DUMP and all I got were these shit bits of metal.

Entering crisis season where I am struggling to think of ideas or make decisions about my final degree show piece, I did have one idea - recover a bent pedestrian railing, damaged by a car crash. After hours of ringing up scrap metal and breakers yards and hours of the staff I spoke to being rude and unhelpful, I decided to try the local dump to see if I would have any luck. Even if a pedestrian railing was unavailable (being a property of the council and all) I would at least be able to find one or two things that could be interesting to work with. When I got there, the guy I spoke to was generous enough to let me have a look through some scrap (by claw-grabbing a huge pile from the metal waste container). To my knowledge, this isn't really allowed in dumps because of health and safety - there were all sorts of dangerous objects in the pile we were allowed to rummage through. Quickly finding a lot of things that could useful, as shown BELOW (plus also we brought back a safe), we carried it all home.

I had no idea what I was going to do with the metal, perhaps combine it, abstract it using expanding foam? I was hoping that something was going to jump out at me but I think I still had my mind set on acquiring a pedestrian fence. This was my next challenge.