I realized how much I discover from empty food containers people give to me to incorporate into my art. In fact, my art has become a history book of our dietary habits...not yet historical though. Saving paper food containers, labels and colorful advertisements as well as many other things people no longer use...I then recycle them into my art. While these things often are odds and ends such as nails, screws or bottle caps they are also notes left on my desk, scraps of paper, old magazines or those media components headed for the trash can because of their obsolescence. But when I thought about it recently, I realized these things may become interesting to the person looking into my art in years to come. Just think of what they will reveal to the professional when he/she discovers the wrappers that expose our current dietary trends and lifestyles. Using other people's trash certainly allows you to see into their life...like the friend who gave me a bag full of colorful boxes the other day. I realized while working with the beautiful red cardboard containers that he eats cherry pie often and at least once a week to have had this many empty pie boxes. He likes his cherries with a splash of sugar ... and then there were those pill boxes..aspirin, Tylenol, and cold medicine...do you think he's sick??? I feel rather voyeuristic while I am unfolding all the trash brought to me by other people...just imagine what the art historian will think in years to come when he/she looks at my work microscopically. The work may reveal secrets about me that even I don't know.
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