The other project I’ve been working on is for a neighborhood gallery which hosts small local artists and bands in a teeny space they’re also trying to renovate. The show is called See-Through Souls, and involved neighbors donating their old windows to volunteers who would create art from them to raise money to keep the gallery going.
Well, you know how much I love a good recycling project, an excuse to make art, and supporting neighborhood businesses, so how on earth could I refuse this?
I won’t bore you with some long artists’ statement, but I will say that recycling was important, as was some expression of things which used to be valued but have gotten lost in our modern world. It’s my personal belief that rediscovering/revaluing those things is the key to our future.
Was that arty enough for you?
Anyway, pretty much everything here is recycled. I took the glass out of the window and used pages from a falling-apart book to cover the frame. The spiderweb is crocheted from an unravelled old sweater and the glass in the second panel is from a different old window.
The mini panel contains a passage out of an old pre-braille Sunday School lesson book, along with a photograph of some trees I shot in a local park which have since been bulldozed. The keyhole was from a previous abandoned art project.
I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out, and I hope it sells and makes them some money. If not, I guess my mother is getting two mother’s day gifts…
