Trash into Shadow Art

notman

Saw this on digg today and thought I'd share it in case you missed it:
http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/onemanstrash.htm

Neo_God

It's rather incredible sculpture, I've seen some of them in person, and what's funny, is at first you approach the stacked junk and just think "Oh okay, a trash artist, nothing new or amazing" but then you catch glimpse of the shadow, and it's like "oh shit!"

dejawolf

for once some awesome post-modern art!

Reverenddevil

Wow, that is awesome. Amazing how someone could think of or stumble across, hey let me see what a pile of trash can do with shadows..
Maybe they stared at clouds A LOT when they were kids?

pior

Woah nice!!!
Do they create them on site? Or somehow glue them very tightly together?
It would be cool if it was a one-time thing only.

Neo_God

Now now dejawolf, I know this board can be a little biased towards contemporary art, but there are loads and loads of great artists, you just need to get out there and see some of it.

Pior. I think they're put together by a combination of Gluing and welding. With a handful of things laying around. Though it would be cool if they're just delicately stacked I love seeing work done within a gallery space, making it only for that space. I was recently at the Guggenheim to see the Cai Guo-Qiang retrospect, and along with his amazing work, they also had a series of character and figure studies based on some Chinese sculptures regarding communism that were sculpted within the Museum on the spot, they were rather old and made of water-clay so they were starting to crack and fall apart (which actually added a rather nice quality, haha), but it was awesome.