This document summarizes various art projects that utilize recycled and found objects to create sculptures and installations. It describes works by artists such as David Edgar, Kitty Wales, Michelle Stitzlein, HA Schult, Christopher Conte, Tara Donovan, Vic Muniz, and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Many of these artists transform everyday trash and discarded materials into thought-provoking works of art that reflect on themes of consumerism, the human condition, and our relationship with the natural world.

1. Recycled Art Project “Trash is a failure of the imagination”

2. “ Trash is a failure of the imagination” - Aaron Kramer http://www.storyofstuff.com/ http://www.urban-objects.com/

3. http://pem.org/sites/trash/

6. Sweater Dogs 2006 Kitty Wales Steel and Sweaters 24 x 16 x 36 inches each

7. BOXER, Leo Sewell, Found Object Assemblage, 31 x 9 x 17"

8. PIG, Found Object Assemblage, 9 x 16 x 4"

9. WALLEYE PIKE, Found Object Assemblage, 12 x 32 x 4"

10. Kader Attia “Ghost” Aluminum Foil

11. Kader Attia “Ghost” Aluminum Foil In Ghost , a large installation of a group of Muslim women in prayer, Attia renders their bodies as vacant shells, empty hoods devoid of personhood or spirit. Made from tin foil –a domestic, throw away material– Attia's figures become alien and futuristic, synthesising the abject and divine. Bowing in shimmering meditation, their ritual is equally seductive and hollow, questioning modern ideologies –from religion to nationalism and consumerism– in relation to individual identity, social perception, devotion and exclusion. Attia's Ghost evokes contemplation of the human condition as vulnerable and mortal; his impoverished materials suggest alternative histories or understandings of the world, manifest in individual and temporal experience

12. Kader Attia- French Algerian Artist

13. Michelle Stitzlein Michelle Stitzlein makes wall-mounted moth sculptures out of recycled materials that include license plates, car parts, mirrors, trash can lids, piano keys, bicycle tires, scrap wood, bottlecaps, aluminum siding, faucet handles, oil drum lids and phone hand sets.

14. German artist HA Schult makes people out of household waste and glue. By the thousands, he is a one-man recycling center. "Anything can be made into art. Mankind's confines have narrowed, the freedom of art is unlimited.We live in the trash time: we produce trash and we become trash. Therefore HA Schult's 'Trash People' are images of ourselves."

16. Joshua Allen Harris

17. Steel Widow II Christopher Conte (Norwegian, lives in NYC)

18. Christopher Conte Steam II Insect After earning a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art (BFA) from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he began working in the prosthetics field making artificial limbs for amputees which he did for 16 years as a Certified Prosthetist.

19. Green Power coat made of recycled transistors from computer memory boards

20. Tara Donovan

21. Artists Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom of New York City This is a full-scale replica of a H3 Hummer made from $39,000 worth of discarded, losing, scratch-off tickets. $39,000 is the median price to buy the actual car. 99 percent of lotto winners buy a car before anything else.

22. Vic Muniz

23. Plato’s Garbage Pile Tim Noble & Sue Webster Real Life Is Rubbish , 2002 Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Partners in both life and art, Tim Noble (1966) and Sue Webster (1967) explore the toxic influences of consumer culture through new modes of portraiture. Turning garbage into complex and visually arresting sculptural installations, Noble and Webster exploit, manipulate and transform base materials, often using self-portraiture to undermine the “celebrated” authorship of the artist.

24. www.storyofstuff.com/