“Cacophonous junk depositories” has to be one of the nicest ways to describe junkyards. That’s because artist Dean Thomas has a soft spot for them. “My heart goes out to these rusting and weathering parts,” he said. “By painting them, I am in a sense reusing them, thereby honoring their lives and maybe even all the people who manufactured and worked with them.” The boomerang Louisvillian — born in Shively, lived in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, back to Louisville — paints these ugly scenes in a beautiful, precise way, making us appreciate them a little more too.