In a process I ended up caling “Inverted Waste” I developed a way to utilise the flattened, broken, or partial parts of objects discarded in my path as I walked through streets in urban zones. Often the road has perfectly flattened objects: cans, water bottles, cigarette packs, grates, etc. I would collect these objects, and look at their outlines, how they could have aesthetic use, and devised a painting process using them. At the time I was in a small town, with a little room I could use as a work space, some basic paints, and was able to buy spray bottles - I started using these pieces as resists to spray layers, I would layer new pieces in the composition, until arriving at a completion. The finished works from these efforts can be found here.
Through this spray process, when I lifted the flattened waste pieces from their use as stencils, I fount that they too were painted in beautiful and unexpected ways - there were small compositions painted on them, which I found really beautful and another co-part of the process to be shown. I photographed some of the most intriguing pieces to share -
