The Journey of our Recycled Studio/Home
We buy daydreams and nightmares when we buy secondhand. We invite a spirit to the house with recycled materials. My home/studio has been a congress of memories, a delicatessen of sighs and a crystal glass full of tears. The canvas is my home/studio and has become an example of innovative thinking, renovating with a passion for preservation and a testament of how the arts can and do educate.
The structure originally equipped with only toilet, partial walls, partial roof, partial electricity - is being reconstructed with remnants-leftovers. It has become a reminder we are only temporary tenants and we must take great care with what we are borrowing from the past and leaving to the future. Tiles and broken pottery have become a mosaic bathroom and tub w/ palm tree, parrot, crab, an abstract dining room and den floor, mosaic kitchen counters. Barnwood which once was part of the old Chicken house in Weatherford, "graces" the walls upstairs and dining room and some exterior walls, evading the garbage heap and saving a tree! Leftover glass doors have become stationary windows. Metal roofs are now metal ceilings and closet doors. A light shade is now the shower head! With no preconceived pallet, we have spontaneously created with whatever comes our way.
This @ Home Canvas and architectural pallet has given me, my family and friends unmatched educational opportunities. The remnants within our communities and our daily trash reflect on us as a society-we discard and dismiss our elderly, our misfit youth, our disruptive children. Through art and education we can create minds to meet the challenges that a global marketplace is demanding and that can articulate and communicate, innovate and that never ceases to learn and understand our environment but our relationship within its creative home.
Will update as I create!