Bob Johnson from Pittsburgh, PA creates Rivercubes. Rivercubes are “cubes” of compressed objects and materials found in rivers. The cubes are developed from a strategy he likes to call ATM or Artful Trash Management. The Rivercubes are rescued trash that raise awareness around the way that we discard our trash, so often it ends up in rivers and lakes and in turn is hurting our environment, the animals, and eventually us as humans. He gathers materials from the rivers and lakes and compresses them into cubes to create sculptures.
“multi modal transport”Car unibody section, shopping carts, bicycles, etc.
“Wheel Cube” 38 tire rims collected from the Pittsburgh Pool
“Girty’s Run Harvest”
“Garden Cube”
Subject vs. content
“multi modal transport”
A sculpture assembled from various found objects including a shopping cart, car hood, and a bicycle. The objects are compressed together and take on their own shape. It appears as if wires and branches are holding together the objects in the sculpture.
One possibility of what the artist was thinking was to raise awareness around how we as humans disregard items and usually do not think twice about where they go and what happens to them. Hoping to encourage people to be more mindful as to what they buy, and what they throw away and how they go about it.
Another possibility is that the artist is interested in taking something that is considered ugly and making it beautiful.
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