Junk Sculpture From Surplus Electrical Equipment To Yogurt Pots

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Everybody needs a creative outlet. If you've been living long enough you will likely have already discovered yours. Perhaps you paint, or write, or crochet, or make jewelry; whatever you do, there's always more to do out there, and perhaps you have not yet hit jackpot on what your best and hidden talent may be.

One thing that some people are trying is a method of sculpture that is totally freeform, totally unique. You don't need to purchase expensive supplies; this type of sculpture can be done with anything you find. The art form is called junk sculpture, and it has been around for ages.

Junk sculpture is a way of creating art from junk. It can literally be created with anything from yogurt pots to shoelaces. Some of the best junk sculptures have been made entirely from materials that others have tossed in the junk yard. Artists are like scavengers, visually picking through the discarded items of twenty-first century life, searching for things with interesting shapes or textures. Once found, these items are placed together to form something new, something not for mechanical benefit, but for aesthetic design.

Some junk sculptures are made from part of cars that artists find at the local pick-and-pull auto wreckers. Other junk sculpture artists make things from old light bulbs, or broken bits of pottery, or anything that they might find at a flea market or a rummage sale.

Some artists search online for deals on surplus electrical equipment, or gather materials from local building sites that are left over from the job and can be bought fairly cheaply or for no cost at all. Still others find a certain items that intrigue them, perhaps a Christmas tree, for instance, and they create a junk sculpture piece from old fake Christmas trees, and odd ornaments and lights.

Some artists prefer their creations to have a kinetic ingredient to them, working in bits of motion via motors and gravity based mechanics. Some of the most interesting junk art is within this sub-genre entitled Kinetic Art. Art exhibits and museums all over the world feature this art form, lauding the artist and interpreting the piece to discover whatever the artist might have been thinking or feeling at the time of creation.

Regardless of the potential financial rewards, which are certainly a long shot, the sheer joy of creating art from junk is not to be missed. So whether you are a person looking for a creative outlet, or an already established artist looking for a new medium to work with, junk sculpture may be worth your while. And who knows, perhaps in fifty years someone will look at that yogurt pot man you made and marvel at how much angst the artist must have had to create such a wonder.

About the Author:
Tons of Surplus is a surplus electrical equipment. (http://www.tonsofsurplus.com/)



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