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Some evoke the moai statues on Easter Island; others seem to be the spitting image of George Bush. Yet these little gems are made from (ready?) toilet paper rolls. Toilet paper rolls! It’s the artistic equivalent of making silk from a sow’s ear.
The artist is Junior Jacquet, a native of Haiti who is now a longtime Parisian. (Be sure to “cliquez ici” in the lower left corner of his website to see his pdf catalogue). Jacquet works in all kinds of paper, creating human figures and abstract sculptures, and makes his “masks” in large sizes, too.
But the small versions made from recycled toilet paper rolls impress me so much more because they are born from something so mundane. The very idea of making such expressive portraits out of toilet paper rolls in particular seems to suggest that every little thing we might cast away as garbage really just wants to be transformed. Images after the jump.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Whoa. This is a way of recycling shit that gives life to something that seemed destined for nothing, right from the start. Just a little peice of cardboard, not even toilet paper, just a place holder for toilet paper to work on the system by which we store and unroll toilet paper, just a place holder for protect a circle of empty space. And often I think those rolls are made from recycled paper, so what was it before? Whatever it was.. it is now v.cool.