The goal of this body of work is to continue awareness of the need to recycle. There is a great momentum towards recycling (here is the) buuuut, there is still need for great improvement. Working in various states, in many homes and living with clients for months at a time, I am witness to the fact that it is still rare to recycle. There are various reasons why the average person doesn’t recycle from a belief that it doesn’t make a difference to lack of facilities. In fact almost every home uses disposable napkins, cookware, cups, plates, and utensils for every meal. There is also much waste generated through individually wrapped food, disposable grocery bags and restaurant togo containers. Not only is it a questionable use of our limited natural resources to create, along with the power to manufacture and the use of gas to transport the disposable goods, these “goods” end up in a landfill. I hope to encourage a change of mindset from disposable to sustainable by creating beauty out of garbage.

These pieces are made from used and discarded paper styrofoam wood and other goodies someone deemed as garbage. They are painted in non-toxic, low or no VOC water based paints. Because they are mostly compressed paper these paintings are for interior only.

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