At one of my recent visits to the MAD Museum of Arts and Design in NYC I was quite amazed by Paul Villinski's delicate work "My Back Pages". The installation included vintage vinyl records, a record player, wire and record covers. Vinyls in the shape of butterflies made their way up the wall in a rather delicate arrangement, almost like tunes coming out of the player itself. Paul Villinski's work focuses on reusing products. Another fav of mine is the found beercan butterfly.
This is the artist statement on Beercan Butterflies:
"...Who leaves these crushed beer cans – forlorn evidence scattered in the
streets of the city? I take these “dead soldiers” – every one of them
once raised to someone’s lips – and breathe new life into them,
changing them into images that suggest the possibility of change
itself. A kind of conceptual unity develops between materials, process
and imagery: my practice in the studio mimics the act of transformation
that butterflies symbolize everywhere, in all cultures...."
Learn more about Paul Villinski
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