A New Take on Looking Trashy
Some people define their many roles by talking about the many hats they wear. New York artist Gene Pool has suits instead of hats - and he's being literal. Pool's best known works have been those he's worn himself, a series of suits made of things you find on the ground and leave lying there from grass (the "Living Grass Suit" - made out of over 20 pounds of live sod) to small change ("The $uit", above, which weighs about 52 lbs).
Pool says that the purpose behind his many suits is half awareness about things people throw on the street and half wanting to shake people—gently—out of their day to day mindset. Even in New York, someone walking down the street covered head to toe in cans is a bit of a spectacle still.
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