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Greenworks: EnviroArt, January 2005
Download Article (.pdf)In our disposable society, trash is something we find almost everywhere we go because we make more of it each day. Do you ever wonder what we do with it? Most of us forget about it once we throw it out, some of us recycle it, and some of us do something entirely different. GreenWorks found five artists who place trash in a new context, and use their expanded imaginations to create works of art that range from simple earrings to elaborate homes.
“Putting light inside an object and seeing how it could be transformed is exciting to me. The glow of it really attracted me.”
Warren’s work centers around lighting and the use of found objects as a source for illumination. His gorgeous studio is home to hundreds of unique lights created with an imaginative mind. He is proud of his ability to see how a piece of trash can be transformed and how space is created from light. People have contracted him to take grandma’s glassware and turn it into a chandelier while others just drop off their stuff because they don’t want it to end up in a landfill.
He uses old and new, valuable and seemingly useless things; but once he connects them he creates a new object. An example is an old wooden crate filled with glass soda bottles. Warren brought the crate to life just by adding lights to the bottles. Ladders and old tools have been used as well as a variety of objects that we use and dispose of regularly each day.
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