What do you do to an empty box or tin? Do you turn it into a vase? A place to put your knick-knacks in? How about into a musical instrument? Take look at what Brooklyn-based artist Barry Rust does to his collection, after the jump!
If keeping a certain item’s box or tin just because they look really nice is a crime, then consider me guilty. One of the problems of this habit however, is finding a place where put them or even a practical use for them aside from well, decoration.
Although I suppose that Brooklyn-based Barry Rust does not have this problem. For more than five years, he has taken colorful and fun-looking cookie tins and cigar boxes and turned them into banjos and ukuleles(!).
Most recently, Rust, along with hundreds of other Brooklyn-bred artists, showcased their wares in the Brooklyn Museum’s GO Brooklyn event.
Those instruments look pretty sweet, don’t they? What do you guys think?
All information for this article was taken from the Arts Observer, the GO Brooklyn page, and the Great Plains Handmade website.
2 comments
roxanneross
this reminds me of seasick steve!
thrillho