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Scavengers- Ingrid Calame and Joseph Cornell: Jen Reeves

Does the means justify the ends in the making of art? Does a sound theory alone make the object demonstrative? Is the artist a mute data provider and the viewer solely responsible for the revelation? Holding that art is capable of far more than satisfying the urge for decorum and coerced poetics, then perhaps the answer to the questions above are no.

Among the varying types of artists, one of these is the scavenging reconstructionist. Sweeping through nature, they set out into the world and see what they can find. Their’s is an eye for the lost, the disregarded, and the hidden strength of misfits. Salvaging the bereft, along with the metaphors they congeal, artists such as these make compositions from our decomposition. Not only the tragic is brought to light but the possibility within the tragedy as well. Enterprising seagulls wash away the tears from material remains as surely as identifying the refuse washed up upon the shore. Embracing the wasted, a way is paved for renewal.

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