I Recycle Materials From Bars And Restaurants And Turn Them Into Works Of Art

I have worked in the restaurant industry for many years and I see the waste that is produced on a daily basis. After years and years of seeing such garbage pile up I decided to use my artistic talents to take ‘one man’s trash’ and make it ‘another man’s treasure’.

Each week I go around to all the local bars and restaurants who save these materials for me. After a few months of collecting I separate the colours and begin my work.

All of these pieces are made using recycled wine corks, beer caps, aluminium soda cans, and old paper. There is no paint or methods of dying used in any of these pieces, they are all the natural wine stain colour out of the bottle.

I currently live in Shrewsbury NJ and am creating these pieces to help pay my way through the Savannah College of Art and Design. Over the summer I plan on making many more pieces!

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Bruce Springsteen

Wine Corks from 4,371 Wine Bottles

I first start with thousands and thousands of wine corks and a board with thousands of nails in it

And then I start adding the corks on the board

Finished Product

Koi Fish made of beer caps from 6,688 beer bottles

Once I have separated beer caps by colours I begin glueing them to the board

Finished Product!

Buddha made from hundreds of alluminum cans

I start by separating all the colours and drawing a rough sketch

And then I begin attaching the aluminium

Finished Product

Bob Marley made from wine corks

Sunflower drawn on recycled handmade paper

Hydrangea and Orchid drawn on recycled handmade paper

Poppies drawn on recycled handmade paper

Jim Morrison made from wine corks

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