What trips your trigger? For me, it’s abandoned metal, cracked and chipped paint on an old piece of wood, an old chest of drawers with the legs missing… rusted elements of some forgotten automobile.
I re-purpose discards and turn them into art. I assemble items someone left behind and create meaningful (?) dissonance. It’s a collage of three-dimensional proportions. Connected by wires, glue, screws, nails, string… more pieces of objects left behind.
It’s the ultimate form of recycling — turning man’s factory-produced detritus into art. It accentuates man’s ephemeral existence.
I shy away from plastic, though. It just doesn’t conform to my will. I suppose I could utilize techniques involving spray foam skins or melting but plastic just doesn’t do it for me. Metal, wood, paper… rock, stone, glass.
And buttons and clay.
