Nicholas Dinielli
I like for my artwork to speak for itself. However, the process of creating art can not always be seen. My collage work this year has been focused on recycling-based efforts. Throughout the school year, I have incorporated a sustainable approach to my creation process. All of the canvases I work over are disregarded projects of past students. Additionally, almost all of the scraps that make up the pieces are from old copies of The New York Times (with the exception of childhood comic books and greeting cards). I feel this approach not only minimizes waste, but creates a new vitality to the materials used. A sloppily done portrait now takes on the life of another individual's creative abstraction, and a model for a hair product can be the centerpiece to a non-commercial production. I feel this reseizing of purpose creates a “forgive and forget” type mentality, in which a perceived purpose of something does not limit its potential functions.