Costumes From Trash

I make wearable costumes from trash. My first dress was inspired by the vast pile of Stop & Shop bags I amassed from just a week's groceries. Since then, I've turned a range of ready sources of trash into something to wear: take-out cartons, detergent bottles, toilet rolls, aluminium foil, or old car seat covers. Everything, apart from the odd piece of tape or thread would otherwise have been thrown in the garbage. I'm struck by the beauty inherent in some of the stuff we chuck out.

Target Bag Ballgown and Donut Trash

Check out my gallery of costumes at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23316161@N05/sets/72157603822887174/

See my work at:

http://www.islipartmuseum.org/pdf/IslipMakingMostOfItCatalogue.pdf

http://www.greenfestphilly.org/

http://artspacenewhaven.org/