One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art

One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art

In a room thick with memory, there is a thing — that’s the closest word I have for it — irradiated by late afternoon light. Before your eyes, it toggles between meaning and pointlessness, resembling, by turns, a rocking horse-like toy set atop a glimmering metallic ocean of plastic wrappers, like a chariot riding toward salvation, and a municipal-orange tossaway randomly placed on a heap of other nothings. Not a symbol, simply evidence that some…

Make a few trash decisions — Oregon Coast TODAY

Who could refuse an invitation to the Trash Bash Art Festival in Nehalem? By Chelsea YarnellFor the TODAYPhotos by Trav Williams, Broken Banjo PhotographyOne person’s trash is another person’s treasure. That thought couldn’t be any truer than at Heart of CARTM in Wheeler. Inside the organization’s reuse store, the mission is evidently clear: creative expression over landfilling. Discarded wears are reimagined into whimsical art pieces that line …