Dirty Beauty

in Gowanus

Brooklyn

New York

Waste Mask

masked campaigner 

England

Barton Moss Gas

Getty Images

Beautiful Waste

Brooklyn

New York

Snow Waste

Brooklyn

New York

Recycled Pieta / Matthew Day Jackson

A modern day fossil, this reference to Michelangelo's Pieta is modelled from a smartphone photo and printed from cement aggregate containing the refuse of New York City.

"a series of clicks remake the world"

Matthew Day Jackson

Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue

Hauser&Wirth

New York

Live Waste

Sweet Dreams

let him sleep forever
Song Dong
Barbican

Waste Not

Chinese conceptualist artist Song Dong displayed her mother's collection of over 10000 objects in Barbican, London hoarded during five decades of social and political turmoil in Peking.
The collection of thousands of old, rubbish stuff helps to understand five decades of Chinese history  with a constant struggle for survival, but also explores the role everyday objects play in our memories.

isn't this familiar?

waste not