Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dust art

British artist Paul Hazelton creates delicate pieces of art from household dust.

Check out more of his work at the Saatchi Gallery.

Here's how the artist describes the inspiration behind his work:
"The dust of everyday life – the unavoidable and necessary by-product of living, engrosses me. Art, also an unavoidable and necessary by-product of living, engrosses me. Art, like dust, is a residue of life and therefore, the making of art is like an extreme act of self-exfoliation. For me, making art is a per-version of life that has many possible diversions. Sometimes these diversions take you somewhere unexpected, sometimes somewhere gross but you have to keep going."

(credit: Saatchi Gallery)