ROSARIO BOND
BEAUTIFUL TRASH SERIES
SCULPTURES
These series of sculptures came to me driving behind a truck full of garage and discarded objects. The visual feeling was a mixture of disgust and beauty. I was surprised when I started thinking of these unusual elements as a subject for my art, and I started elaborating and daydreaming, expanding in my mind why and how this could become a work of art. The shapes and unusual dirty colors looked attractive in the sunlight as some of the objects reflected and gleamed in an atypical way.
Old shoes and clothes could be glanced bizarrely as a I drove behind this vehicle. As an exercise I started imagining odd ensembles and curious combinations using the elements and materials that made sense to me from that strange compound. As I like to use female related elements and ideas, they developed in what you now see in my sculptures, a mass of trash, as a compound of recycled women's artifacts for beauty and fashion- that is repulsive and pleasing at the same time.