SKAGGS

During my college days my roommate (who is from my hometown) and I would create random sculptures using items that we found around campus. Usually when there was an excess of something someplace.

There was one sculpture we made from old tires from behind an abandoned auto shop. Another was a boatload of chairs from an event that was happening the next day.

While in school we did our sculptures in the safety bubble of our campus. If we were going to be hassled, it was just going to be campus safety and we’d say “oh its an art project, we’ll clean it up.”

Luckily we were never hassled.

After school we still had the desire to make public art, but we had nowhere to do it‚Äîno safety bubble. If it was going to happen it was going to be risky. Well we “manned up” and went for it. Once again we used someone else’s trash‚Ķa heap of fluorescent light bulbs. We stumbled upon this location by complete accident, and it couldn’t have worked out any better. We planted our “Light Garden” in about 2 hours, shot some photos, cleaned it all up, and disposed the lights properly. Here’s the result. We couldn’t have asked for a nicer day either. It was amazing out.