This research into possible routes inspired by existing artists for challenging the ordinary materials that could be explored.
Chakala Booker
This artist known as Chakala Booker is known for her sculptures created out of rubber, tires, wood and metal that are converted into fluent material that holds and captures the materials typical smell, texture, burns and scars. Booker's indirectly brings to attention slavery, the working class and factory labour. Booker's is also known for making sculptures that she wears to art and fashion shows.
I've not only been inspired by the unusual mediums she decides to use but also by this quote, "When you’re working with found materials,
each one comes with its own purpose, history, and use."
Jennifer Maestre
This artist known as Jennifer Maestre creates pencil sculptures that were inspired by the body of the sea urchin and its function. She takes thousands of pencils, cuts them into 1-inch fragments and after drills in each section so that they can be sewed together. The spikes capture the dangerous, yet beautiful nature.
Maurizio Savini
This artist is known for his unusual use of chewing gum. He admits that the gum is not chewed, instead, he melts it into a pink, sticky usable material. Savini applies the sheets of gum in a layering manner around plaster moulds that give the sculpture shape and stability. When he started the pieces disintegrated, so now he combines the gum with antibiotics and formaldehyde to preserve the piece. Because it stops the high sugar content further damaging the pieces of art.
Thomas Deininger
Deininger is a 43 year old American that creates portraits out of found and recycled materials, from cigarettes to shoes and electronics. Deininger doesn't solely work in the medium of recycled/ found objects. However, these from my point of view seem the most powerful, in inviting the viewers to question environmental and consumer culture concerns.
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