JP
Schoss of Dog Bite Studio is passionate about recycling
and believes that garbage is the best place to start!
He
first began using old propane tanks to save on the cost of steel,
but soon realized that reusing these objects was much more than
that.
“The material has a lot of character and always tells a life
story. I sometimes drag things out of the ditches, and then the
earth feels better! People often bring me all sorts of things –
old tools, farm implements, pieces that have layers of paint from
past lives. I never see just a steel object. I see the new life
waiting to come out of it.”
The
resulting work is primitive, balanced and often very
humorous. JP works out of his home studio near Uxbridge,
ON.
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