Art Recycled from Trash
Picture This Gallery, Hilton Head South Carolina
Third Annual Juried Exhibit April 2nd -28th 2012
An amazing selection of wonderful pieces were exhibited this year along with several from a local pre school (seen hanging from the ceiling)in a separate category - complete with a milk and cookie afternoon reception giving youngsters a valuable lesson in recycling and a chance to be proud of their sculptures.
My contribution this year was an altered book titled: "Commercial Geography". Each piece had to be created with 75% manufactured goods that would end up in a land fill.
I used parts from several books rescued from a dumpster. Keeping old covers and spines mainly for all sorts of collages and projects. Pages were folded back and glue and wax hold the pieces together on a base of another book cover.
The "story" appears to be squeezed out from the pages using all sorts of bits and found pieces....and some buttons too!!!!
The birds are made of my favorite paper... flax dyed with indigo made by "Cave Papers"
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