A Brazilian artist by the name of Henrique Oliveira has been creating organic shapes out of scrap wood that began to peel off of a fence by his home. The type of wood used called Tapumes (in Portuguese) is pretty common in Brazil and is pretty useless after a construction site is finished. Henrique Oliveira creates swirling and bulging organic shapes using these wood peel scraps. His process involves creating a PVC pipe underframe structure to which he attaches the wood peels. View more work at his website here. Recently he has been featured in the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans in which he created clouds of pillows and mattresses collected after Katrina. More pictures after the jump.
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