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<\/p>\nThis artist uses anything from plastic spoons to used catheters and even ping pong balls to make elaborate sculptures of animals.<\/p>\n
35-year-old Because she couldn’t afford art supplies four years ago, Stephanie Hongo became involved in trash art.<\/p>\n
Currently, Stephanie, a Connecticut resident, has produced more than 100 intricate works of animal art, occasionally piecing hundreds of pieces of rubbish together to form a single piece.<\/p>\n
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In addition to asking friends and relatives for extra trash, Stephanie uses Facebook groups to get <\/p>\n
specific parts she needs to finish her amazing sculptures of octopuses, lobsters, and other animals.<\/p>\n
She made a unicorn’s horn out of a Barbie leg, lobster antennae out of discarded catheters, and owl feathers out of plastic forks.<\/p>\n
Stephanie, who goes as Sugarfox, is an artist. She told me that after leaving her position as an artist-in-residence <\/p>\n
at the Trader Joe’s grocery store chain in May 2017, she was desperate for money and turned to trash to produce her artwork.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese artist Bordalo II, who creates massive installations out of waste, served as her inspiration.<\/p>\n
She declared that she would never buy plastic to use in her sculptures.<\/p>\n
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She declared, \u2018I won’t buy plastic at all; I detest the thought of having to buy anything other than <\/p>\n
the paint and hardware that I require.\u2019 \u2018On Facebook community pages, I do make requests for old basketballs or plastic tubing.<\/p>\n
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She works on each item for ten hours to two weeks, and she has a talent for selecting the ideal piece of junk to use as the foundation for her creations.<\/p>\n
Some items require hundreds of trash bits.
\n\u2018I use a lot of extension cords, old phones, remote controls, and plastic toys in my artwork, along with ping pong balls.\u2019<\/p>\n
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