((PKG))  SCRAP HOUSE ART     
((VOA Russian)) 
((Banner:  House Made of Scraps)) 
((Reporter:  Maxim Moskalkov))
((Camera:  Andrey Degtyarev))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  Hyattsville, Maryland))
 
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
Find something you like, and it's usually because of the 
shapes and the age, and eventually that thing will be 
something.  It's like the object tells you what to do with it.   
((NATS)) 
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
Oh my gosh, they're beautiful.  I'm going to pull up and look 
at the other one too.  I might get out and take pictures.  Is 
that OK?  
((NATS)) 
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
This is amazing.  And somebody just takes time and put all 
this together like this.  
((Man))  
That man right there.    
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
Him?  
((Man)) 
Yeah.  
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer)) 
Are you the artist?  
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
I’m the old man now. 
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))  
Oh, the old woman is impressed.  
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
A really good question, an interesting question that can't be 
answered is, why somebody is drawn to a certain form?  But 
for whatever reason, this is the thing that I want to do.  It's 
sort of Victorian.  It's the little towers and spires.  It's junk 
which I like. 
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
This front is put together from probably a 40s sled and this 
part is a 30s truck front, cut way down.  These are 1940s 
headlamps from a Buick.  It’s got moose horns and more 
statues and another helmet over here and a deer and all this 
stuff.  This used to be a lamp.  It has a bunch of these 
statues.  This is Middle Eastern, a lamp.  This is a bird cage 
holder.  
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
Cars can't go into the back.  There is no access.  So, they're 
on the street which means they all are legal.  They all can be 
driven.  They're all licensed.  They're all insured.  It's 
incredibly expensive to keep them on the road but that's how 
it is.   
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
Police have never said, you know, “What do you think you're 
doing?” because it has legal plates.  I've been pulled over by 
police who wanted to talk, like, “Oh, what made you do 
that?”  You know, because they were bored.  
((NATS)) 
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator)) 
I mean, it's just my house.  I mean, it's not formal in any kind 
of way.  So, I've actually been asleep in the living room and 
had the door open and people say, “Hello, are you open?”. 
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything.  It's just 
an art house.  It's an art house, you know.  Art cars and an 
art house.
((NATS))