Photo: Shane Norton | Stephanie Hongo
When Connecticut-based artist Stephanie Hongo quit a job she hated about five years ago, she wondered how to make a living from her work. Inspired by a fellow artist who crafts murals from trash, she began making junk sculptures of different animals, starting with a blue deer named Yandoo. “It was probably the best and the biggest response that I’d ever gotten from any piece of work that I’d ever made,” she said. Half a decade, 24,500 Instagram followers, and 160 sculptures later, she is living off her art. She loves turning junk into something beautiful. “The most important thing that I want people to get out of it, if there’s anything, is that if you’re unhappy, you should do something about it,” Hongo said. “Life is just too short to do something you hate.”
|
|
More:
