The Landfillart Project – Turning Hubcaps into Works of Art

The Landfillart Project – Turning Hubcaps into Works of Art:

The Landfillart Project is an artistic endeavor that tries to get people thinking about the amount of trash they generate, by repurposing hubcaps as unique artworks. The idea was thought up by Ken Marquis, from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who has spent the last three years convincing other artists from all the US states and 52 foreign countries to give old hubcaps the artistic treatment. Ken got the idea to use hubcaps while attending an auto show near Allentown, where a collection of 41 rusted wheel covers inspired and got him thinking they could be repurposed. He bought the entire cache for $82, and just a few weeks later acquired 1,000 more, from a collector in Quakertown.

`You want me to find a hubcap in my own country and pay for that, and you want me to pay for (the materials to make) this piece of great art, and then you want me to ship it to you at my expense, and then you want me to gift it to you? Am I understanding you correctly? OK, yeah, I’m in.’” “Artists get it”, Ken says.

Source: Associate Press via Artdaily
Photos via The Landfillart Project (check it out to see the whole collection)


The Landfillart Project – Turning Hubcaps into Works of Art was originally posted at OddityCentral.com

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Mouse traps and rat trap collection

Collection of antique live traps for rats from the Antique Mouse & Rat Trap Gallery.
Ingenious contraptions have a strange appeal as sculptural objects.

WANTED List. Including Bonanza Mouse Trap 

WANTED Royal No 1 Mouse Trap (1879)

      

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Wisconsin woman keeps mousetrap collection

Cage style "Live traps" (more examples below)

“I love the story of ‘Cinderella’ and how the fairy godmother transforms a pumpkin into a beautiful carriage and the mice and rats into horses to pull it,” Putsch said. [Mary Putsch of Janesville, Wis.] “I really like the illustrations, and that’s what brought me to mousetraps. “In my picture book, when Cinderella went to get these mice for her fairy godmother, they were in something that looked to me like a bird cage,” she said.  It was, in fact, a live trap for mice."

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"There are 4,400-some patents on mousetraps. That’s more than any other single item.” Although Putsch has never counted her traps, she estimates she has at least 100 dating back to the 1800s. She’s found her treasures in antique shops and flea markets, had them given as gifts, bought them on trips abroad and even had a few made by her husband.