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...Meredith M. Lanoue ’06-’07, a budding green artist, eagerly waits for Cambridge trash day every week to gather the materials...
...Right now I have a box of CD cases that I took out of someone’s trash,” says Lanoue. “It takes a lot of self control. I’ll go by someone’s trash and it’ll take me talking to myself, convincing myself to not take some of the stuff back...
...Currently, she is working on a sculpture to raise awareness of how much people throw out that also addresses sustainable building design. Lanoue hopes to “challenge definitions of ‘disposable’ and what is trash.” She also recently submitted a proposal to get funding for student garbage art projects...
...Perhaps the most zealous trash warrior is Alex K. Pasternack ’05, a former Environmental Action Committee publicity chair, who put on a garbage art (pronounced gar-BAJ or alternatively spelled gARTbage) show for Earth Day 2005. Speaking from his home in Beijing, he talked about his fascination with garbage and desire to challenge other people. “It’s not out of sight, out of mind. Interestingly, it’s in sight, out of mind,” Pasternack says...
...some kind of chemical weapon,” recalls Pasternack. In a cruel example of Mother Nature not knowing what’s good for her, on the actual day of Pasternack’s show, rain dampened student turnout and forced them to throw out much of the trash art; this time it would not be resurrected...