Marissa Brassfield
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 Artist's Giant Collage is Comprised of Everything He Threw Out for 36 Published: Jan 20, 09 Views: 2,770 Tim Gaudreau is an eco-artist who took a photograph of every piece of trash he threw away for 365 days. From paper coffee cups to beer bottles, the collage of images that resulted from Gaudreau’s journey gave him a new and unexpected insight into his own life. Gaudreau says in his project statement, “By focusing on all of these images, I came to attach new meaning to my discards. My trash became memorialized, no longer merely throw-aways to be forgotten forever, but now somehow useful. It began to reveal me.” If you documented everything you threw away for a year, what would your collage reveal about your life? Whether you’re an eco-activist or someone who’s just curious about your own consumption, Gaudreau’s project is a fascinating one.  This collection of images intimately displays what I do, what I consume. It showed me that even someone so eco conscious still sends so much to the landfill; that daily coffee cup adds up. (Recycling it doesn't let us off the hook either; it takes energy to produce, transport and re-create.) New England's landfills are nearly full. What happens next? What are the consequences of this American throwaway culture where, if it's out of site, it's out of mind?
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