I am glad I’m not the only one in the family that collects piles of used stuff. I come from a long line of recyclers…and artsy crafty types. Take my brother, Roger. He’s an artist living in Jersey City and just one of those people that is always finding cool stuff. I don’t mean scoring at a yard sale, although he’s pretty good at that, I’m talking about trash. Really amazing stuff on the street waiting for the sanitation department to take it away. It’s funny because I sometimes get the feeling that he is in his own world not paying attention, when in reality, he is tuned in.

Anyway, Roger recently exercised his finely honed trash picking skills to create some pretty cool artwork I wanted to share with you. He is part of an exhibition of the A.M. Richard Fine Art Gallery called Pre-packaged Perspectives.

Here is an excerpt from the gallery’s description of his piece:

Concerned with the consequences of environmental disasters, cost-effective and durable habitat as well as the immediacy of recycling inorganic materials, ROGER SAYRE presents BUCKET HOUSE, an urban log cabin built of large industrial plastic pails.

Based on the idea of children’s toy Lincoln Log wooden construction sets, Mr. Sayre conceived a shelter as easy to built as to dismantle. The unit of construction, plastic buckets, compact and stackable – makes the house easy to transport, light weight, sturdy and impermeable to the elements. The house’s footprint can be as small or as large as one’s restricted or allotted space of construction. Scale is limited to one’s accumulation of discarded plastic buckets. The construction of BUCKET HOUSE will evolve over the time period of the exhibition (September 6th-October 14th.) The contemporary architectural prototype is presently being built in the rear garden of a 1910 row house located in the South side of Williamsburg (Brooklyn).

I love it! Leave it to my brother to base his artwork on Lincoln Logs. He has such an affinity for symbols of his childhood. Must be because he grew up with such great siblings. 🙂

Here is another piece of his from the same exhibition:

And the gallery blurb:

Mr. Sayre is also presenting NEW ORLEANS, a site specific installation conceived of hundreds of vintage Bingo game cards. The cards are suspended on the gallery walls in a continuous composition of a swirling mass modeled after satellite images of hurricane Katrina.

Ahhh, I love my creative wacky siblings. And speaking of siblings and family, I just added a family link list in my right hand sidebar. Don’t want to play favorites or anything…