Junk Mail Portraits

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Artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold creates these stunning pop art portraits from junk mail.

My work reflects our society’s obsession with beauty through advertising – and the endless images that bombard us daily. It is a purposeful intermix of images derived from advertising and thousands of incongruent pieces – images and text – from advertising that arrives through my mailbox. Assembled like a mosaic; the paper tiles create an entirely new image – an eclectic and tactile portrait reworked in my imagination, utilizing materials that would otherwise go to waste.

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4 thoughts on “Junk Mail Portraits

  1. Una says:

    Can these be purchased?

  2. schimmel art says:

    yes, sandhi’s work is available:
    http://www.schimmelart.com
    click on “for sale” to view work that can be purchased…and where it is!

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