Hubcaps - junk or a work of art?

Posted on February 23, 2010
Filed Under Interesting

What is junk for one person, for the other one - is treasure, especially for a person with rich imagination. For many of us hubcaps are simply parts of our automobiles, but for some people it’s a valuable material for creating a work of art. Ptolemy Elrington is the artist from Brighton, the UK, who can make interesting sculptures of animals such as dragons, dogs, owls, sharks, crocodiles, fish from hubcaps. In this way the author expresses to us his main idea, that used things can live the second life.

You should admit, that it’s rather an extraodinary, but a very beautiful and useful way of garbage utalization. So, the artist collects thousands of lost hubcaps on the sides of the roads all arond the Great Britain and create his intricate sculptures. With the help of his good imagination and magic hands he transforms useless hubcaps into glittering animals.

Each sculpture is so detailed, as you even can’t believe that they have been made from BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Volvo automobile hubcaps. Ptolemy Elrington finds them more flexible for his work.