Video: Stunning Garbage Sculptures by Leo Sewell
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American Leo Sewell I can’t even calculate how many times in the past fifty years he went around the landfills of his hometown and how many tons of garbage passed through his hands. Not the most pleasant, and for some it is completely unacceptable occupation, but for Leo this is just part of the job. No, our today's hero is not a garbage sorter, but a sculptor who creates his works exclusively from unnecessary and discarded trash.
Collecting material for sculptures is the most frustrating part of Leo Sewell's job, because for this the author has to regularly go around all the landfills of his hometown and rummage through heaps of garbage in search of necessary things. But then the most interesting thing begins: Leo sorts the found objects by color, size, texture, shape and, using bolts, screws and nuts, turns unnecessary trash into amazing sculptures.
“I started this activity as a teenager,” says Leo Sewell. - Since I grew up in Annapolis, I often visited the shipyards located near my home. I came home with such heaps of scrap metal found there that one day my parents suggested that I try to make something creative out of this rubbish. The boy decided to follow the advice, and now Sewell has fifty years of experience working with garbage sculptures behind him.
During his half-century creative career, Leo Sewell created about four thousand sculptures from garbage found in landfills: from life-size animal figures to a seven-meter-long dinosaur and a torch, whose height was 12 meters. The author's works are exhibited all over the world, including collections of more than forty museums, as well as private and public collections. The sculptor takes pride in the fact that even Hollywood stars buy his work, and he cites the name of Sylvester Stallone as an example.
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