Dumpster Diving and Up Cycling

For sometime now, I have been collecting some "junk" from stuff that people have thrown out - Furniture, drawers, whatever can fit in my car! hahaha... The other day I drove a few blocks down side streets with  a large piece sticking out my OPEN back door... =) It just wouldn't fit, but I wanted it! HAHAHA... Some of what I have found are for things that I am working on and other things are for people to use at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, in the "Actions, Conversations - Intersections Exhibition. 

I was really excited last night - I have found a tall lamp stand that has a glass top and my mom has a lamp stand that the glass broke. So it is DIFFERENT then the old glass but I was able to fit it on! The rest of the lamp I will see about using later to make a light box artwork piece I have thought about.... But that will be another day! The base and pole of the stand would make a great stand for some other .... maybe sculpture piece?! In the image above you can see the stand that I took the glass off of and in the image below you can see it on the top of my moms light stand! 

Parts to Make a Whole

Since I have been back home and have been looking for what kinda artwork I really want to focus on... I have decided that I want to be "responsible" with the things that I already have... OR... Is it that I just want to CLEAN up and make room?! haha - In either way, I had decided to work on some more Assemblage work. In the last few days I have made about 10 new pieces from stuff that I have been collecting over the last year or so. Here are a few UNFINISHED pieces... 

I am always picking up lil random junk off the ground... things that just catch my eye... I think that it is really cool to just find something that you find artistically interesting or "valuable." Then to piece it all together to create something new with it. I also like that if everyone was to pick up a few random things and EVEN just toss it in the trash the city would look better and save money/ people would feel better about what they are doing... - the lil things. 

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