3D-Edddy

3D-Edddy is passionate about “junk” – the way we see it, what value can be found in it, and what we do with it. His work “Zen Tower”, currently on exhibit in our plaza this summer, is an example of what he calls “junk art”. “I use that term to educate the public about how valuable discarded items and junk really are,” he told us. “There are so many ready-made shapes and materials to use. The age adds a beauty and wisdom to the sculpture.”
 
“Zen Tower” is a found-object wood sculpture, a very spontaneous art form in which Edddy assembles odd-shaped pieces of wood together with nails, wire or “whatever”, using junk accents for character, humor, and design. It opens a channel to new ways of looking and creating. “Zen Tower” was created by staking antique wooden mock-ups of machine parts from now-defunct Rietz Manufacturing, a San Francisco-based company founded by Carl Rietz, an associate of Thomas Edison and Luther Burbank.

“I create with what’s at hand,” he said. “In the late 70’s and early 80’s, due to a lack of art education funding in our schools, I began to provide art enrichment for my family. Being of modest means, I used household junk (ready- made discards), used lumber, and found objects to construct sculptures. We gathered these materials and waited for the objects to speak to us, telling us what they wanted to be.

Constructively, our present generation threatens to become inundated with the accumulation of junk, and as was the case of the impressionists venturing out of the old school academy of art, the “Now” generation must do something constructive with our present time. As the population increases, more and more junk accumulates, and thinking people find themselves identifying with this new condition. Therefore, Junk Art is putting the nearly impossible articles together to make new sense for communication in the reality of our times.”