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48 Eccentric Art Installations

Sometimes the call to create takes unusual form.

by Daniel McDermon, Senior Editor
48 Places

Some artists work their way diligently through school, training in traditions and techniques that have been developed over thousands of years to create sculptures in clay or marble, or paintings in oil. They build upon the work of generations who came before, striving to make something new and unique. 

Others, driven to create, work with whatever tools and materials are at hand, carving wood with a chainsaw, building with reclaimed materials, obsessively collecting or transforming common objects into something new. In art, there are no rules. Or, perhaps: The rules are always being broken, erased, and rewritten. 

 

 

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Savannah, Georgia

‘Black Holocaust Memorial’

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.
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Taylors, South Carolina

Mad Century Studios and the House of the Improbable

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.
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