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Jim Ramirez at his show Trashed Can Art at the Bunker in Kansas City, MO. Photo by Kat Day<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve been creating assemblage art out of found objects for years. Trinkets. Trash. Wood, metal, glass. I started picking up spent bottle caps for no reason, and it became an obsession. I\u2019d even seek them out in some pretty dangerous places. Like snowflakes,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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no two bottle caps are alike. Smashed cans were also everywhere, but I refused to pick them up. I already had my head full of bottle caps. Then, one day, I saw two smashed cans lying side-by-side, looking up at me. And looking down at them I realized they were<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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spent and cast out, just like the bottle caps. So I gave in and started picking them up, too,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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with no idea what I was going to do with all these brand-new, beautiful things that I found<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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As an artist, I wait patiently for the next project to appear. I don\u2019t force it. Over time<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I notice things that are supposed to be art and pick up things that don\u2019t know that they are. I never know what\u2019s going to come together, but sooner or later, without any deep thought on my part, something will.<\/span><\/span> \n<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
One night, out of the blue, I thought, cut the smashed cans into one-inch squares and make simple abstract designs out of them. Lightning Bolt. So, I started cutting up the cans and playing around. As I did this I was reminded of the mosaic tile walls by Jackie Ferrara that decorate the Grand Central subway station in New York. They are among the most incredible (minimal) designs that I have ever seen, and I\u2019m sure my memory of them is coming into play. <\/span> \n<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Some of these cans had just been tossed out, and some were so distressed, paper-thin, and faded by the sun who knows how many times they\u2019d been run over or how long they\u2019d been out there. I picked up a smashed Budweiser can, but I couldn\u2019t cut it up. It was too perfect just the way it was. It had a personality to it, almost a sadness. I decided to try making it the centerpiece, designing around it with the one inch squares… and finally, something had come together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I started looking through all the cans for more of these special ones that spoke to me, but there were very few. So I went looking for them. This quickly proved to be a waste<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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of time. I could find smashed cans everywhere, but these special ones that become a centerpiece find me when I\u2019m not even looking. In some of the strangest places. So far, out of the hundreds of cans that I\u2019ve collected, very few have.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I left them Untitled, letting the viewer decide what each piece says to them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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And I still have my head full of bottle caps.<\/span> \n<\/span> \n<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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