Leirner creates her work out of discarded or scavenged mass - produced objects and materials, ranging from obsolete airline ashtrays to devalued currency; used stationery, envelopes, and mailers, to used shopping bags from museum stores and high - end airport boutiques; professional business cards; and all of the left - over components from multiple
empty cigarette packs.
Using acrylic, he paints obsessively on various materials that surround him, including
empty cigarette packs, bottles, cereal boxes, furniture, and of course, stretched canvas.
Between 1967 and 1974, for example, Chamberlain completed several series of sculptures made of urethane foam, galvanized steel, and heavy gauge aluminum foil which were based on the common movement of the hand in wadding tissue paper or sponges, or crumpling
empty cigarette packs.
In the U.S. each year, approximately 24 billion
empty cigarette packs end up in the garbage, and cigarettes represent roughly 20 percent of litter on roads and beaches, by far the single largest source of litter.
When the snow recedes in early June, the fields abutting the highway are littered with a season's quota of
empty cigarette packs, soft drink cans, and dead bodies.
Not exact matches
No more fears, no more away the
pack of
cigarettes I had in my pocket, the bottles of alcohol that we kept at home we
emptied in the sink — I didn't need those crutches anymore: Jesus had reached my heart.
Charlie's studio is enormous and well equipped, and after inspecting his
pack of
cigarettes and finding it
empty, he asks to bum one off me before we start the interview.
A cocktail party features glasses of wine held by men and women and a few of each drink from their glasses, a man at a party sips from a glass of whiskey and another man chugs from a bottle of clear liquor (the label is hidden), a man drinks expensive whiskey in his office and his living room, a man holds an open can of beer on a sidewalk, four men in the back of a pickup truck drink from beer cans as the vehicle is moving, a man drinks from a small bottle of whiskey in his living room (the scene cuts to him lying asleep on the floor with the
empty bottle, two crushed beer cans, and a
cigarette butt around him), a man at a party says that he is wasted (implying intoxication, no drugs are seen or mentioned), a man offers a worker a 6 -
pack of beer to bring a shovel and help clean a bathroom (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details), a man offers another man a drink and he declines saying that he is high on life, and a man holds a can that could be beer.
They had the same proportions as the
cigarette packs I'd been crushing when I sat around in bars, drinking a lot and making sculpture out of
cigarette packs as we
emptied them.»