The Fun of Found Art

I don't know about most people, but I make a lot of trash. Unintentionally, of course. On my list of priorities, it's pretty low, though it probably should be a bit higher. I know, I know. I do recycle what I can, though, but I still manage to churn out an ungodly amount of refuse, and I've been thinking of ways to deal with it.

One of the more creative ways is to take some of my old junk and do something artistic with it. The only problem is, I'm not very artistic. I consider myself more of a writer than an artiste, but I'd like to think that, with some practice, I could shape up a nice piece of Junk Art.

First things first: I'm not too savvy on my terminology, so if I screw a name up - if there is a difference between junk art and found art (and I'm sure there is) - please enlighten me. I don't want to offend anybody.

The prospect of being able to turn some of this old stuff into something approaching beauty, or at the very least, vague interest, intrigues me. If you have any ideas of what to do with old stuff and how to do it, I'm all ears. Until then, enjoy this gallery of fine art made with items considered trash.

Art Based on "Why Work Doesn't Always Work"

I'm not an art aficionado - I hardly have a talent for it - but I do like to point out when something intrigues me, and the work art I've seen on the internet definitely fits the bill. Especially art, I might add, made during the weekly slog in an office. What better way to typify the office experience than with pseudo-rebellious art? Behance.net discusses the idea at great length:

Sisyphus Office is an exhibition organized by San Francisco based artist, curator, and co-founder of The Thing Quarterly, Jonn Herschend and based out of Skydive, a Houston, Texas gallery.

The artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices in and around Houston in order to highlight art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life. The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, capitalism, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void.