GLOSSARY

Formaldehyde - A colorless substance usually used in preserving animals or decaying items.

Preservation - To keep something as it was before forever or to restore it to how it used to be.

Wilting/wilt - Dying of plants.

Mortality - To be exposed to death.

Composite - A thing or something made up of combined items.

Decompose - To physically break down.

Posterize - To have a dramatic or unnatural pose or attitude.

Pillion - The passenger seat behind the main seat, such as on a motorcycle, bicycle, or horse saddle.

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"How Junk Sculpture Helps the Environment" and "Junk Sculpture Styles" : 

Alix Wood's book, "Junk Sculpture. But is it Art?". 

Scholastic Inc, "Trashy Hotel", February 7th, 2011.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

The 1930s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Overview

An animal preserved in formaldehyde can be seen as art, even one with a meaning. Others may pick up random trash, clean it, and then create something out of it that could end up in a museum. These creations are referred to as Junk sculpture, junk art, etc.

Unordinary sculptures or pieces are built by artists such as Andrew Whitehead who finds scrap pieces of metal and welds them together to make large sculptures, or Reijo Kela who made a field of thousands of scarecrows, their clothes even being changed every day. 

How Junk Sculpture Helps the Environment

    Plenty of people take thrown away objects or trash in general to make something. Such as HA Schult, who collected thousands of trash from off the beach to create a five room hotel, temporarily made to represent what our world can become if we don't take care of the Earth, stating, "It reflects how things can end up if we do not take care of our planet. We live in an era of trash, and we risk becoming trash.".

    With HA Schult's piece and many other pieces, he helped the beach become a safer place for the animals who roam there. The less garbage there is the less harm they can encounter from garbage, especially for the ones who've just hatched and become stuck or harmed.

Junk Sculpture Styles 

Junk Sculpture Styles

Shark preserved in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst.

Sculpture by Damien Hirst that goes with an aquatic set called "Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable."

    Damien Hirst is known for his preservation of dead animals, such as a baby lamb, a large shark, a cow head, etc. As told in a biography by The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Hirst also may cut up the animal into pieces then preserve it with formaldehyde.