Over the years I’ve had plenty of “bad” art, experiments gone awry; however one step leads to another…
I’ve had bonfires in my back yard and my husband would sit there and watch my experiments go up in smoke! However so many times I’ve tried to throw away some of my less-than-perfect pieces and it just seems to be impossible. A bonfire seems to be the only solution however those bonfires are illegal in the city. The bonfire I did have was when we were living up north in a small town .Everybody had them because they owned farms etc..
It seems that art is like a living organism, you can’t just chuck it in the dumpster and hope that it dies. Many times I’ve thrown away hideous paintings, only to see someone digging in the dumpster and walking off with my embarrassing experiments!
A few years ago I sorted through all of my stored art and threw all of my miniature sculptures into green garbage bags. It was an artistic phase I went through which led to a dead end (maybe not, but it felt like it at the time).
One sculpture was a barbie doll size silver P.T. Cruiser (I drive the human size silver P.T. cruiser, which I love, by the way) filled with hand made dolls. The dolls were going to a birthday party!
I took all of the garbage bags, I had about a dozen and threw them in a construction dumpster a few blocks away; which you’re not allowed to do. I just didn’t know where to take my yucky stuff. Not to the local thrift store where it would continue to live. The next day as I drove by in my silver P.T. Cruiser to my shock and disbelief, a construction worker must have opened some of my discarded green bags and I saw my Barbie doll P.T. Cruiser sitting on the ledge of the dumpster along with a few more of my miniature sculptures. That night I slithered to the dumpster in my p.j’s. and wet hair, grabbed the P.T. Cruiser, stuffed it inside my jacket, pushed the other sculptures deep down into the dumpster and slithered back home.
Now as I am maturing as an artist (and as a human being) the quality of my “less-than-perfect” paintings, is good enough to keep the work. Perhaps not to show but at least I don’t have to worry about throwing pieces away.
Please visit my website at www.labedzki-art.com.
regards,
Annette
