Reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose...

...renew, upcycle - whatever you call it, making the old into new is a passion of mine.

I've turned dryer sheets into curtains , 

'I Should Have Listened to Mom' cafe curtains

a damaged child's board book into a colour fix, 

a broken boot into a sculpture,

discarded wine bottles and glasses into table art, 

 

cigar boxes into keepsakes,

worn-out blue jeans into print-making templates, 

buttons into decorative elements,

empty paint tubes, beer bottle caps, vintage hair clips and outdated costume jewellery into paintings, 

scraps of paper into mini accordion books,

throw-away boxes into memory-keepers, 

wine and beer bottle caps into gardens, 

an obsolete law book into a different kind of garden, 

torn and pages-missing soft cover books into a table sculptures,

foam scraps into monoprinting templates, 

and the list goes on and on.  My passion  obsession for making the most of things means that I look at everything with an assessing eye, knowing it could be something entirely different.  (Don't worry, John, you're safe . . . so far.)

Word has it that there is going to be a Trashion show here in town in May, where artists are encouraged to turn trash into fashion.  Anybody got any used dryer sheets they can spare? I feel some new clothes coming on.