Gary Williamson’s Shatter’d Visages is all about rejuvenating office waste, junk mail and business documents, recycled paper especially, into artistic, human facial contours. The Plano artist calls them paper faces or Modern Paper Antiquities. Seeking to provide a formidable solution to our wasteful habits, he decided to come up with these faces utilizing free paper.
He has transformed his living place into a workspace where he stores molds on patio and churns paper shreds into slurry. Gary recycles the water used in the slurry via his SlurryMaster3000. His garage makes place for his standard woodworking tools and benches. In his backyard, he has installed a solar oven made of an old metal locker. His tools, his arts and his lifestyle, everything is green beyond doubt.
I had always wanted to come up with something to make from discarded materials, mainly because of the recycling aspect, but also because it would provide an inexpensive resource. Now I have, and it gives me great satisfaction to know that I am making a small contribution.
Relying on his small contribution, which isn’t “small” by any measure, Gary has successfully sculpted various faces out of the discarded material. His efforts have been received well by green-minded folks in and around Plano. Until date, his art has attracted 20 buyers for him.
Via: Dallas News
