While listening to NPR, I just heard about this wonderful artist in residence program in San Francisco: artists are invited to use trash from the city dump to create artwork. These are my kinds of artists, though to be honest I am too squeamish to go "dumpster diving." Maybe if I hadn't seen all that e. coli and staph aureus in my high school microbiology class I wouldn't get as queasy as I do now. But since I have this particular affliction, I am content to just collect unwanted cardboard boxes or buy bags of shredded money from the government. Come to think of it, I bet that old money is filthy! Who knows where it's been? Okay, let me not think about it.
Still, I think if Chicago is to be as "green" as Mayor Daley claims it to be, we need a program like this, too. And maybe I'd participate, wearing a hazmat suit, of course.
Anyway, if you want to listen to the NPR story, click here:
In San Francisco, Making Art At The Dump by Lisa Morehouse
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94900661
Visit the San Francisco dump here:
http://www.sfrecycling.com/AIR/index.php?t=d
And here are the sites of the current artists in residence:
http://www.re-f-use.blogspot.com/
http://www.caseylogan.com/
Just wanted to tell you I love your meringue painting, it's very joyful and nice! Thanks also for leaving a comment on my blog :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for leaving a comment on my blog! I had a lot of fun making "Meringue." As I reacall, I applied the modeling paste to the canvas using a spoon purloined from my college cafeteria, so I made the peaks and points the same way I would if I were making a meringue pie, I guess...
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