Arts and Craft Trash is Andrea Myers's Treasure

As much as I wish I knew what to do with the beautiful fragments of fabric and paper(a.k.a trash) left behind after completing a piece of clothing, collage or drawing, nothing I had dreamt up comes close to Andrea Myers's work. 

Check out her work, it's outta sight

Within my artistic practice, I maintain an interest in exploring the space between the two- dimensional and three- dimensional, hybridizing painting, printmaking and sculpture. I feel my work is dependent upon various processes, such as cutting as drawing, the relationship between deconstruction and construction, and the inherent malleability and vulnerability of my chosen materials, namely fabric and paper. I identify myself as a painter who constructs painterly sculptures and installations. I am interested in using painting as a matrix to work against and to stretch into the realms of other mediums. I look to painting to inspire color and form, and extract the formal qualities to reinvent the boundaries of painting.

Rift. 2008. MDF, latex paint, layered fabric.

16x 24x 30" each piece

                 machine sewn fabric collage!..craziness...

For five weeks in the fall 2008, she was the artist in residency 

at A Studio in the Woods, in New Orleans.

I really like this piece from this collection too..

A site specific temporary outdoor installation, the surfaces of the fragmented pieces are meant to reflect the canopy of the forest, while also suggesting references such as a broken mirror or glass, cracks in topography or a sprawl of islands.