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As a discarded commodity designer, I shape found materials into a new form, rescue objects after they have been abandoned and give them new meaning. I have often been drawn to the amount of doors I find adrift in the garbage of NYC. As the winter season is a time of entrances and exits, the door being the beginning and end of all travel, a warm light and an open door become icons to the weary holiday traveler.
I built my sculpture with re-purposed doors and windows. Each will resemble a piece of architecture, and when viewed together will create a mini skyline. They will be installed with various colored lights that will emanate through the glass portions of the doors and upward out the top of the buildings.
This installation will remain at the site throughout the month, the colors of the lights change on culturally significant days. It will begin with white and red lights and change on the following dates:
Bodhi Day: December 8 orange lights
Return to Red and white: December 9
Chanukah: December 15-23 blue and white
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day: red, green and white
Kwanzaa: December 26 red, green and black
Boxing Day: December 26 green lights-money/debt
New Year: December 31 white lights
Designed and Built by atom cianfarani www.atomseco.com
Sponsored by the Build It Green Center
Salvage & Surplus:
The Build It Green! NYC sells salvaged and surplus building materials at the warehouse — great products at half or below their new price. And you help keep perfectly useful material out of the landfill! www.bignyc.org
Atom S Cianfarani
As a discarded commodity designer, I shape found materials into a new form, rescue objects after they have been abandoned and give them new meaning. I have often been drawn to the amount of doors I find adrift in the garbage of NYC. As the winter season is a time of entrances and exits, the door being the beginning and end of all travel, a warm light and an open door become icons to the weary holiday traveler.
I built my sculpture with re-purposed doors and windows. Each will resemble a piece of architecture, and when viewed together will create a mini skyline. They will be installed with various colored lights that will emanate through the glass portions of the doors and upward out the top of the buildings.
This installation will remain at the site throughout the month, the colors of the lights change on culturally significant days. It will begin with white and red lights and change on the following dates:
Bodhi Day: December 8 orange lights
Return to Red and white: December 9
Chanukah: December 15-23 blue and white
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day: red, green and white
Kwanzaa: December 26 red, green and black
Boxing Day: December 26 green lights-money/debt
New Year: December 31 white lights
Designed and Built by atom cianfarani www.atomseco.com
Sponsored by the Build It Green Center
Salvage & Surplus:
The Build It Green! NYC sells salvaged and surplus building materials at the warehouse — great products at half or below their new price. And you help keep perfectly useful material out of the landfill! www.bignyc.org
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Website: http://www.atomseco.com
I call myself a Discarded Commodity Designer. My passion is innately linked to materials cast off from our ever increasingly disposable society. The raw materials that I detour from our waste stream have intrinsic value: an energy to be harnessed that would be otherwise wasted. My goal is always to re-fabricate discarded commodities into new forms, a practice based strongly in an ecological belief system manifested through conscientious processes. The materials that I produce purposefully retain their original physical imperfections as reminders of time passing, and evidence of life.
Categories: Sculpture, Performance Art, Metal Art / Jewelry, Fiber / Textile, Environmental, Craft, Visual Arts, Multi-Discipline, Folk / Traditional Arts, Design / Architecture
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