Metro Central Transfer Station in Northwest Portland lets artist pick through rubbish — and recycle art | OregonLive.com

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Mike Suri, William Rihel, Ben Dye and Leslie Vigeant sit in an impromptu living room/talk show set constructed at the transfer station by Rihel. He makes these kinds of stage sets almost every time he visits there. “It’s easy enough to find a decent roll of carpet and several functioning pieces of furniture, some fake plants,” he says. “Soon it starts to resemble the places that all these objects came from. Setting up scenes or temporary sculptures with the objects at hand is kind of like sketching on the train. Things are changing so fast that you have to act quick and pay a lot of attention.” Minutes after this shot was taken, the set was swept away by the front loader and the materials were prepped for the landfill.

 

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