American installation artist Phoebe Washburn reuses discarded materials such as cardboard boxes, plywood, and scrap wood, transforming them into strange, large-scale architectural environments. Wood recycling takes on a new meaning in her studio. She builds walls, meadows, and laboratory-like structures by stacking, binding, and fastening strips of wood and other salvaged materials.
Wood recycling as an interesting wall covering
In this project, Washburn’s sculptural language is translated into a wallcovering. The "wood wall" approach and "Wood Wall as Safari Vest" transform worn materials from her installations into a new surface. The first reads like a patchwork of different wood pieces assembled in a deliberately irregular order.
Wood recycling as carefully organized wall decor
The second "Wood Wall as Safari Vest" builds on found objects arranged in a highly organized pattern. The wall panels create an illusion of depth and a visual effect rarely associated with ordinary wallpaper.
Washburn has long collected discarded objects from streets, loading docks, and dumpsters. Her process turns the by-products of consumption and industry into labor-intensive systems, making the boundary between art and everyday life visible.
It Makes For My Billionaire Status, 2005 
Cardboard wall
Nunderwater Nort Lab, 2011
Large-scale installation, 2006
Compeshitstem: the new deal, 2009
Nunderwater Nort Lab
Tickle the Shitstem, 2008
Recycled-material structure
Compeshitstem: the new deal, 2009
Nothing’s Cutie, 2004
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