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Trashy Art, Trashy Artist…

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Today I found a group of artists that are working in similar ways to create their artwork. All the artists use trash, objects, scraps, recycling, waste, the list goes on, to create wonderfully composed images.

The first artist I found was Bernard Pras. Pras is a French artist that creates assemblages and anamorposis illusion that must be viewed from a particular vantage point to reconstitute the intended image. As seen in previously explored artist in this blog, the artists are using trash to give the objects a “second life,” as well as, showing the world our waste.

The second artist I found was Sarah-Jane van der Westhuizen. Westhuizen is another environmentally friendly artist that spends her time finding her material at a dump instead of buying new products at a store

at here’s a look at her recycled sculpture:

The third artists was Jason Mercier. Mercier creates 3-D mosaic portraits out of various products and wastes. “Each portrait is created from the celebrities own discarded objects and junk such as broken sunglasses, make-up, gum wrappers, jewelry, deodorant, shoes, and other items.”

Here’s some images from the Celebrity Junk Drawers Series:

The final artist I found that uses trash to create a masterpiece is Tom Deininger. Tom Deininger uses any material he can find to create is works. He sends his assistants out every week to collect as much trash as they can find for his shop. In an interview on Interactive lend, he says that “one thing that entertains me is the appropriation of an object to serve a function other then it’s intended use.”

Here’s a link that goes through showing different angles of his “lips” piece. You can see the amount of detail and trash that goes into one work and how the work is composed to make a larger image.

As you can see all these artists use trash and recycle materials to create there works. They understand the issues of todays problems regarding our consumer waste and recycling problems or lack there of.

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