Over the last two years I’ve become obsessed with forging a sustainable tiny life and building a tiny house. I’ve drawn countless tiny house designs, electrical drawings, elevation sketches, and collected windows, doors and materials from Habitat for Humanity, the side of the road, yard sales, you name it. While in the process of getting ready to build the Silver Bullet, I have been very busy downsizing, recycling, repurposing, gifting, free cycling, and making art out of all sorts of materials. I’ve made cardboard wingtips, beautiful jewelry, toys, bustiers, skirts, shawls, purses, pyramids, chandeliers, musical instruments, paintings and sculptures out of recycled newspaper, plastic bottles, feathers, silk, buttons, beads, ribbons, doors, canvas, yarn, bottle caps and more.

I had great fun inspiring an excited group of local high school students to contribute an entire grid of small paintings of their own waste streams. Come and join the party on Opening Night! See you there!

(That’s my friend, Max, an artist, who will be modeling the fashions on opening night. You can find her here.)

Waste Not, Want Not (Everything is food for something else) Remis Lobby Gallery, Wilkie Performing Arts Center, Governors Academy, One Elm Street, Byfield, MA. 01922   Opening night with the artist: September 20, 2013 6-8PM   Noted reclamation artist, resource steward and sustainability educator, Vera Struck, upcycles her waste-stream into artwork, www.struckstudios.com