Even the pedestals the birds sit upon are made from salvaged wood off-cuts.
Take a closer look though and you’ll find that the Buddha-like figure has an umbrella for an elbow, gold electronics for a necklace and a nipple made out of a bushel.
Hatton arranges the bees in patterns symbolically linked to monoculture crops destroying them…
Her eclectic pieces make metaphorical connections between our everyday actions and purchases and their impact on the planet.
Anyone could take part of the making of the installation, and Mer and Buchler gradually added more and more strands of plastic beads as the project progressed.
Ruff pays homage to his past infatuations while also lampooning fashion, big tobacco, consumerist culture, and himself.
One company has spent years fishing these cast-off shoes from the surf, not to transport them to the landfill, but to create something new and wonderful from what was once trash.
A recurring theme in his work is colonialism and its impact in Africa.
Lach collects discarded vintage American Tourister suitcases and transforms them into a sculpture series called “Nest Colonies.”
A freeway overpass is not the first place you would think to look for innovative art.
Originally from Bogota, Columbia, Uribe’s work is influenced by his “dark reflections on the Catholic sense of pain, guilt and sexuality.”
The shimmering quality of the salvaged metals gives the works a living character.
