Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998, by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, 6 months worth of artists’ trash
As I was watching Animal Planets “The Most Extreme” “Crazy Collectors”, (about animals that collects trash either to build a home or to eat), they also showed a person (artist) collecting some garbage to create art. It may sound disgusting but it’s actually really neat! So I wonder how many people actually do this here?!
Recycling is a simple way of helping out the environment and also a way to reuse items for the everyday necessity or to create things. Artists are hanging out in landfills and recycling centers, gathering up the trash that can be reused. What they find is then transformed into statements on beautiful images and sculptures that both attract and/or disturb their viewers. It’s simply a matter of opening our minds to a new and unique way of doing and seeing things.
Question: Would you consider working with trash to create an art piece?
Artist Sayaka Kajita Ganz uses plastic utensils, toys and metal pieces among other things.
Here are some interesting websites to check out:
http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/04/recycled-art-from-trash/
http://www.sayakaganz.com/Home.html
http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=18
-Daliana Rosa
