With the economy the way it is, how many people have a positive response to art made from trash? To work that uses "recycled" material (such as my own): discards, broken things, old and scarred items.
Do the people who like "found object art" themselves collect found objects? Are they flea market junkies or maybe those that comb the trash piles on "big trash item" days?
Is it true that as our "recession" deepens, folks find themselves more repulsed by items reminding them of just how close they are to living on the street? Or is the reverse true-that people find it easier to identify with work that uses recycled material because in fact they're being pressed by their wallets to "reuse, repurpose, recycle"?
Although never a "hard core" (read politically active) recycler, I feel lucky that I can reduce the waste stream somewhat and do so as aggressively as possible. For me it's simple logic that you should do so by any means available: we'll probably be swimming in our own waste soon enough. And future generations will drown in it. Just a fact -it takes no real genius to figure this out.
So back to the original question-d'ya think we "found object" folks are gonna look to be the good guys or the bad guys given this current economic atmosphere?
That's the Trickster god, Mercury...The title of the piece is "Moik", as I always did like a good nickname.
