I am interested by almost all types of art. I’m just as happy to browse through a small independent gallery as a huge art museum, to attend a dance event or a live music performance, to fingerpaint or take a sewing class. I believe that exposing yourself to art of all kinds broadens your perspective on life and enhances your creativity.

But there are some types of art that capture my attention more so than others, of course. Found art is one of those types of art, as I’ve mentioned here on the blog before. And another is art that is combined with technology. One such type of art is mobile phone art.

There are a lot of different types of mobile phone art out there. People actually take recycled mobile phones and use them in sculptures and found art pieces, creating mobiles and structures that are visually stunning despite the ordinary-ness of the mobile phone. Other people use the phone as the means to make art, creating interactive audio and visual performances from the phone or filming videos on the phone and turning those into art.

I find this all to be really interesting. We use our phones every day but most of us don’t think twice about them in terms of their potential for creativity. As mobile phones get more and more advanced, that potential just opens up even wider. I think it’s inspiring … it makes me look at my own cell phone in a whole new light!

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Found art is a topic that I come back to again and again because it is something that I really love. There are so many reasons that I find found art to be fascinating and important and worth writing about.

A look at the bare bones of the reasons that I enjoy found art includes:

• The creativity always impresses me. I love that people can take a look at a series of seemlingly unrelated objects and then put them together in an artstic piece and make them suddenly make sense together.
• It’s green. Ultimately found art is a green art because it involves the recylcing and repurposing of objects that would likely otherwise have ended up in the landfill and which instead are used to create art. Admittedly, some artists and greener than others depending on the other materials they use but it’s basically an eco-friendly art most of the time.
• There is so much variety in this area of art. Because people are using found materials from all regions and walks of life, the pieces often differ so much from one another even in the gallery of a single artist. I love this variety.
• It’s accessible. Anyone can get into the work of doing found art because it’s all about taking what’s already around you and turning it into whatever you think is beautiful.

In the spirit of researching and enjoying found art, I’ve written an article highlighting 8 Welding Artists. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

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