I have worked in the restaurant industry for many years and I see the waste that is produced on a daily basis. After years and years of seeing such garbage pile up I decided to use my artistic talents to take 'one man's trash' and make it 'another man's treasure'.
Each week I go around to all the local bars and restaurants who save these materials for me. After a few months of collecting I separate the colours and begin my work.
All of these pieces are made using recycled wine corks, beer caps, aluminium soda cans, and old paper. There is no paint or methods of dying used in any of these pieces, they are all the natural wine stain colour out of the bottle.
I currently live in Shrewsbury NJ and am creating these pieces to help pay my way through the Savannah College of Art and Design. Over the summer I plan on making many more pieces!
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Bruce Springsteen
Wine Corks from 4,371 Wine Bottles
I first start with thousands and thousands of wine corks and a board with thousands of nails in it
And then I start adding the corks on the board
Finished Product
Koi Fish made of beer caps from 6,688 beer bottles
Once I have separated beer caps by colours I begin glueing them to the board
Finished Product!
Buddha made from hundreds of alluminum cans
I start by separating all the colours and drawing a rough sketch
And then I begin attaching the aluminium
Finished Product
Bob Marley made from wine corks
Sunflower drawn on recycled handmade paper
Hydrangea and Orchid drawn on recycled handmade paper
Poppies drawn on recycled handmade paper
Jim Morrison made from wine corks
