Virginia A. Spiegel

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I can’t believe it’s Tuesday already. There’s a new post, of course, on The Garbage Day Project.

What an appropriate photo for Garbage Day. It’s a dandelion gone to seed. The stem is the most gorgeous pink.

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Count The Days – detail

In place of an inspiration photo today, I decided to share some art MADE from garbage since it’s Tuesday and that means there’s a new post on The Garbage Day Project blog.

Count The Days is made from OTC drug and gum packaging, wax, gum and a piece of vinyl used as a painting surface to protect the table while I was doing my residency at Great Expectations Creativity Center in Texas. There is also a Count The Days 2.

Here’s the artwork under the needle of my trusty little Bernina.

It looks pretty boring if photographed on a flat surface.

But put a light behind it, here natural light on a very cloudy day, and all kinds of interesting things happen. The detail photo at the top of this post was taken with a halogen light behind it.

And even the back is beautiful (halogen light behind it). These are two-sided pieces with not only beautiful in themselves, but they offer so many possibilities for photographs to be used for screenprinting, direct printing to organza, etc.

Two previous Art From Garbage projects: It’s Like Love and Autumn Trellis. You will need to scroll down to the end of the webpage to see Autumn Trellis. It was part of the very first day of The Garbage Day Project.

An ironing board with pink legs–who could resist that? Visit The Garbage Day Project for today’s photos and news about garbage, art and recycling.

Today’s bonus photo is a closeup of fountain grass. I bought a flat of grasses at a plant sale and thought they were miscanthus sinensis (tall), but they turned out to be these lovely, short grasses. I have never really appreciated them until today with the delicate seed heads swaying in the fog and mist.