♥ waste not. want not.

artist sandhi schimmel gold makes treasures out of trash- literally.

"my work reflects our society's obsession with beauty through advertising-

and the endless images that bombard us daily. it is a purposeful intermix of

images derived from advertising and thousands of incongruent pieces-

images and text- from advertising that arrives through my mailbox.

assembled like a mosaic; the paper tiles create an entirely new

image- an eclectic and tactile portrait reworked in my

imagination, utilizing materials that

would otherwise go to waste."

brilliant, eh?