Reduce/Reuse/Recycle

As a society, we are compelled to be part of the greening of this country. In an attempt to bring this to the art world the gallery hosted "Reduce/Reuse/Recycle" as our entry into Harrisburg's annual Gallery Walk.

The root of the show was a photojournalism essay by well-known Master Photographer, Gordon Wenzel. The subject was "what price for progress". His digitized photographic canvases juxtaposed the natural beauty of our earth with traffic jams, junk yards, nuclear plants. The beauty of nature was shot in black and white in a fading of our natural senses while the replacement of junk yards, scrap and trash were presented in bold color. Wenzel brought the problem to our attention.

The problem reaches a beginning to resolution by the artists who exhibited what can be done to reuse our trash and junk to create art. A fiber artist, Susan Ball-Faeder, exhibited beautiful one of a kind wall hangings made from bags of old rags. One piece even doubled as a skirt.

Another artist, Larry Robenolt, showed beautifully restored furniture found in junk piles and curbside disposals.

An artist new to the scene, Shane Morgan, creates sculptures made from discarded metal and car parts.

Shown here is Shane's "Junkyard dog" made completely with scrap car parts beside "Dirty Dog" a character invention of Floyd Stokes and Leland Nelson who is used to promote recycling among children through their kids' activity book "Talking Trash with Dirty Dog and Friends", a publication of The American Literacy Corporation for Young Readers.