Adam Savage writes about space nerd sculptor Tom Sachs

(Sachs had) mounted two Space Program exhibitionsthe moon (at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills) in 2007 and then Mars (at the Park Avenue Armory in New York) in 2012. There were the blue Tiffany Glock and orange Herms hand grenade, and also a Chanel chain saw and a Prada toilet. And a foam-core R2-D2, which Id collected pictures of as inspiration for building my own DIY Artoo, a decade before I knew who Sachs was.

We had a lot in common. Were both obsessive organizers. We both make replicas. And when were in the shop and cant think of what to work on, we build infrastructurestands, shelves, benches. Sachs told me hed cribbed construction ideas from MythBusters Now he uses my workshop when hes on the West Coast, and I use his when Im back east. Our wives describe our relationship status as dating.

When I look at Sachs workshop, whats more familiar to me than the tools are the rituals, the signs of how Sachs turns prosaic objects and materials into art.

"Ground Control to Major Tom" by Adam Savage (Wired)