New Hampshire Artist Makes the Mundane Wonderful

New Hampshire Artist Makes the Mundane Wonderful
Artist Kim Christiansen certainly is doing his best to prove the adage that one man's junk is another man's treasure.

After all, it's not easy to transform rubbings of manhole covers, recycled galvanized plumbing fittings or handmade jewelry sporting messages in Braille into collectable art.

Manhole cover rubbings? Braille Jewelry? Recycled plumbing fitting candleholders?

After seeing his work, you'll never walk the streets, punch an elevator button or use the restroom without thinking about his art.

Kim Christiansen's pieces are truly ground breaking.

A pair of his Braille earrings has been placed into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

His show of manhole cover rubbings in the lobby of the Securities and Exchange Commission building was discussed on television news along side of the work of Jackson Pollock.

Besides providing fine art, Christiansen has become an archivist of pieces of history that are slowly being lost.

Because of increasing world prices for scrap metal, municipalities are experiencing thefts of manhole covers that used to lay unnoticed.

He has images of one of a kind lids that have been covered with pavement, never to be seen again.

Christiansen has been making his Braille Jewelry for 15 years and attends conferences all over the country t