From Trash to Treasure - Art in Big D

According to The Environmental security Agency, Americans dispose of more than 200 million tons of garbage every day. Every day!

Of policy I'm not here to lecture about recycling and the national trash dilemma. But rather, I would like to share with you a video I recently produced about a friend in Dallas who has the capability to see trash as art. And I'm not talking about the slime you throw against the wall to see what sticks - and refer to it as art (although I also comprehend that charm is in the eye of the artist). I speak instead of wood, plastic, metal and dead plants that can be gathered together to form eye-pleasing works of beautiful - abstract - art (sculpture).

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As a expert videographer/photographer I'm often paid to capture extra moments and gatherings, generate marketing videos and document real-life situations. Many of these situations and gatherings are staged and include some months of planning. Some of these assignments are interesting, educational, emotional and entertaining. And they pay the bills (usually).

From Trash to Treasure - Art in Big D

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But as a digital artist who as a matter of fact "enjoy" his work, I often have the unique occasion to videotape people, places and things - with only a moment's observation - just for the fun of it. This is just one case.

My Dallas friend has been blessed with an eye that can see art and treasure in trash. And while I am in no manner a expert art critic - I can as a matter of fact appreciate the charm of an artist's hands at work - even in the middle of a pile of common rubble.

Eric has the capability to take old chairs, plastic cups, washer and dryer parts, old headboards, table parts and even dead plants and generate art that is worthy of collective display - even at the Dfw airport.

And on one recent Sunday afternoon I had the occasion to meet this master of trash (he and his house are personal friends of my son). My wife and I were invited over for Sunday lunch. After entering the modest, but well-decorated home, you can't help but observation the magnificent works of art that hang from the walls, compliment the fireplace and adorn the varied corners of this home-turned-museum. My first thought was that this young house spent all of their fortune on fine works of art-sculpture. But to my amazement I soon discovered that I was breaking bread with a modern-day Picasso, Monet or Michelangelo.

Of policy the next reaction (naturally for me) is to run to my car, grab my trusty video camera and push "record." It's moments like this that money can't buy. If I was officially hired and paid to generate a short video documentary about these varied works of art, I would have brought in a expert lighting and sound crew with all the television-production accessories, etc. But capturing it this way - at the spur of the moment - when I'm feeling like a kid in a toy store or a traveler gazing in amazement at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - it brought much more pleasure than any paycheck or major video compact ever could.

It was fun. I enjoyed it. And once again, I was reminded of why I do video and photography - not to make a bundle of money or to come to be paramount - but because its fun and I enjoy sharing the charm and wonder of friends, events, nature and those extra moments in time - with the rest of the world.

From Trash to Treasure - Art in Big D

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