Rob Pettit creates work from old cellphones. At first he was using them because it was basically free. Friends and family would give him their old phones they no longer used. But now it is more of a recycling project too. He wanted to come up with a medium that was common to everyday people but something that wasn't used in art very much.
He creates installations on the floor and the walls of all kinds of recycled cell phones, and he has received around 5,500 so far. He said that when people come to his shows, he encourages them to bring their old phones in to donate so he can use them to create another piece of artwork.
This is very interesting to me. I've always wondered what to do with all of my old cell phones, but never thought to create artwork from them. When I see a drawer full of them, i could never imagine them creating something so beautiful. Rob Pettit has accomplished that.
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