An Artist’s Log of Three Years of Street Trash

From May 5th, 2002 to May 4th, 2005, artist Nico Van Hoorn took a daily 30-minute walk looking for the perfect piece of trash in the street.  It could be paper, plastic or metal but it had to be smaller than 10×15cm and as flat as possible.  The trash was scanned daily, and what results is a series of portraits of trash that really make you think, was this little item – whatever it was, whatever it was used for – worth littering the streets for?

Check out more of the photos at Trashlog.com

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