Transforming Waste into Art

This is a walk-in glow-in-the-dark sea cave that is all made from repurposed materials and feathers. It glows in the dark with fluorescent materials infused into glass and plastic as well as paint. It is a permanent part of Art Park 101 and is available for the public to experience during operating hours for free,

These pieces are part of a group of sculptures I created from 2000 - 2008. This series was called Anemone Anomalies and depicted undersea worlds made from found and fabricated objects. Sweater sleeves, old dog toys, hair ties, place mats and various old clothes combined with feathers formed bright and tactile underwater worlds. Found objects are also combined with ocean beached objects. I have always loved the ocean and especially invertebrates after spending years with my fingers in the tidepools on the Oregon Coast and living on Puget Sound as a child. Some of these pieces are still available, while others are sold.

Bandonia the Phoenix sits 12 ft. tall and 64 feet long, with a 21 ft wing span, next to highway 101, in Bandon Oregon. She looks at you from the parking lot of Art Park 101.
Angela Haseltine Pozzi created her from discarded waste including care bumpers, bottles, fishing lures, hoses, kitchen utensils and more. The underside of her wings are musical as they chime in the wind of the Southern Oregon Coast.

This was a commissioned art piece for the Norfolk Botanical Garden and stands near their children's garden. It is 12 ft tall and 7 ft wide, and made completely of discarded plastics and metal. It represents the native plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia.

Standing 4 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide, this small scale educational sculpture was commissioned for use in teaching about the caddisfly and the results of plastic pollution in streams and ponds near the Chesapeake Bay area .
This artwork is also all made from discarded plastics and water bottles.

This group of wall sculptures are Alien Sand Creatures wearing marine debris necklaces. They are part of a story about how these creatures have fallen into the ocean, rolled in the polluted sands of our beaches and created marine debris necklaces. Each one has a message for humans and often reflects something about our society. Here you see some which are sold and some which are still available. These are displayed at Art Park 101.

This sculpture is part of a storyline of teaching children not to litter. Litterella was cursed by the nasty Fossil Fuel Monster to pick up and eat litter for the rest of her life.
She rides the nature beast and can sniff out who litters by smelling the garbage. She will come into your home late at night and curse you with bad luck until you stop littering. So do not litter!

Transformation bowls bring into question , "What is valuable and what is not?" they ask 'Why do we think one thing is more important than another?" Angela takes opposite types of objects and juxtapose them against one another, such as discarded bottle caps and semi-precious stones and makes you stop and think. " Why do you think a bottle cap is not as valuable as a piece of coral.?" This group of old found bowls have been transformed into works of art with odd discarded things and beads. Rather than using glue, Angela wires everything together, she wants her art pieces to last and be able to be handled without worry of damage.