Rossignol Re-Art
Summer 2008 I was involved with the Re-Art program at the Teva Mountain Games. My buddy Ben and I gathered items from the Denver dump, the side of the road, crags, and more than one friends garage to created a recycled art mural. People were digging on this experience and we had a great time interacting with the public as we grinded, cut, blow-torched, and fused our masterpiece together. It was then auctioned in chunks to raise funds for The Alpine Conservation Partnership.
Afterwards I received many calls for fun, similar projects. People were PSYCHED! Rossignol Ski company had me do two pieces based on their logo, the rooster, and their history as a 100 year old company.
There is a lot of freedom in the process of recycled pieces- working with what you have, and reclaiming what was considered trash. Beyond the statement of recycling the discarded, there is the process interaction with the medium which causes moments of pause. When I am cutting a discarded piece of wood, or steel, ski poles, or climbing rope, I try to think of the life this material has had thus far, and how it’s end-story could have been different if I hadn’t rescued it. By becoming “art” it has life anew, and is now hanging on someones wall, being enjoyed daily. It has new purpose.
Tags: inspiration, recycled, Rossignol, Teva
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Another thing I remember Jeremy saying as we were doing this is that it is common to see people take old skis or other retired sports equipment and reuse them to make something functional like a lawn chair or a bench. Or to simply take old wooden skis and hang them on a wall. What was fun was to see people react to how Jeremy used a combination of various pieces of sports equipment to create new pieces that had no function all but in the process became even more valuable, even treasured.
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