What exactly is Deconstruction - Reconstruction?

Welcome to Deconstruction-Reconstruction! We are a group of art students hailing from various areas of study including fashion, fibers, and metals at Virginia Commonwealth University. We are researching recycling fibers as a response to the large amount of muslin scraps wasted each day in the fashion design department. Throughout our project, we will be collecting muslin scraps from the design studios in recycling bins, keeping track of how much is wasted, in hopes of creating a continuing fabric recycling program. During our research, we will be meeting with designers working with eco-friendly or recycled materials. We will also use the scraps in combination with found and recycled metals to create one of a kind garments and accessories in order to reuse the wasted scraps. These pieces will be featured in a final show in May 2008.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

SCRAP YARD, YEAH!!!



Okay girls...Here's the low down, I found a few scrap yards.

Chesterfield Auto Parts--they have two locations and its only $1 to get in and then they just charge us for whatever we want that we can fit in our bucket.
-Their voicemail said they are open 7 days a week, but i couldnt get anyone on the phone to see if they are there on monday, so i guess we will just have to go and see. Hopefully they will be there.

BMG Metals and RIchmond Steel---These guys actually cast and fabricate steel parts, but i have heard they have a scrap pile of whats leftover after they make things, and we could just pick from what they have... I'm not sure if they are open monday either, my guess is they probably wont be, but i will call both places on monday and see if anyone picks up.

SO LETS GO!! MOnday at 11:00? DOes that sound good? We can meet at Pollack. I've got a Cherokee so i can fit 5 people plus whatever we decided to take with us. We might even want to just bring our cameras to get ideas of the way things look when they are deconstructed before we reconstruct them.

Let me know if this works for you guys!! YEAH!!
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3 comments:

casey bianco said...

Sounds good to me! Yayyy!

January 19, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Jess said...

wwwoooo. i'll bring a camera too.

January 20, 2008 at 6:48 AM
S.Kim said...

Yayy~!Sarah, can I ride with you?
See you guys at tommorow 11~!!!*^^*

January 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM

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