Upcycled: Creative Reuse

Bird Blade

$140

10 x 10 / Mixed Media: Acrylic Paint, Discarded Objects, and CollageUpon a collaged base of various discarded papers, covered in metallic acrylic paints, are 2 found rusted razor blades discarded i...

Sea Caps

$250

11x1" / Mixed Media. Champagne bottle caps, polymer clay, paint. / A black shadowbox frame containing 9 tiny dioramas made into once discarded champagne bottle caps. The bottle caps themselves are ...

Photofasionsynthesis

$500

13 x 12 / Assemblage, with doll head, ball jar, pipesThis steampunk inspired piece shows the growth of fashion. It is made from doll heads, pipes, a scavenged light bulb, clockwork, and paper ephem...

Daedalus

$650

11 x 7 x 5 / Sculpture, metalThese works are constructed from found and repurposed metal objects

Death Valley

SOLD

8 x 8 / Coffee bags, dog food bags and envelopesPackaging (e.g. Dog Food Bag) is chosen for its color and texture. It is then cut into the appropriate shape and sewn back together to create an imag...

TRUMPET LILY

SOLD

17x21"/ Mixed media (fishbones art) new form/ Fish bone artwork is a completely original 3D art form that I developed on my own in 1994, while living in my native country, the Republic of Moldova. ...

Erased

$350

12 x 10 / acrylic on vintage erasersOld erasers painted with portraits mined from old, unlabeled photographs from antique shops, exploring the juxtaposition of the historical erasure of these women...

Table-top gong

$250

13 x 10 x 11 / welded metalTable-top gong made from recycled metal, including small oxygen tank that has been cut, welded and treated. The striker is made from a small metal rod that has been dippe...

Deep Blue

$450

17 x 25 x 1 / Mixed wood on found woodFor 5 years LYFR and CLS have been collaborating on exterior curiosity murals made with reclaimed wood. This is the first body of interior work. Started in Chi...

Bottlecap Octopus

$2,200

45 x 38.5 / Bottlecaps, Vintage 1970s Soda Cans, Salvaged WoodsThis Octopus is made form over 1000 vintage soda bottle caps from the 1970s and 1980s. The background is made from over 150 different ...

Table Poppies

$500

24 x 16 / Acrylics on a substructure made from single use plastic bagsShredded single-use plastic bags are warmed until they melt together creating a painting surface with bumps and valleys. Such t...

Fiddle Me Blue

SOLD

22 x 8 x 2 / reclaimed mosaicsreclaimed violin mosaic with upcycled stained glass, turquoise beads, coated pebbles; ball chain