10 Powerful Sculptures Crafted Using Discarded Trash By Artist Sugarfox
Stephanie Lynn Daigle, also known as Sugarfox in art circles, has had an interesting start to her creative journey. It all began with a miserable job and a pile of junk. She turned to art as a fallback income source in 2017, when she abruptly quit a long-time career she was unhappy with. Relying on freelance art as her primary income, she was forced to source her own supplies, as she had no other viable way to obtain them. Drawing inspiration from a couple of trash sculptors she followed on Instagram, Daigle realised that trash is abundant and free. Having always wanted to experiment with this art form, and finding herself in the perfect circumstances to do so, she dove right in.
Daigle’s first piece was a blue stag she named Yondu, which she completed in July 2017. She has since been creating her particular brand of art for almost nine years. She admits that she is both grateful and shocked by how far her art has taken her. Being featured in local news, People magazine, and The Kelly Clarkson Show, and even being offered a TV pilot based on her work, has been quite an experience for this American artist.
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Explaining the process behind her designs, Daigle said, “Every sculpture is the result of layering one piece of trash onto another. I work in plastics almost exclusively. Occasionally, things like aluminium or wood will be used, but I try to avoid soft surfaces like fabric and never use glass or hard metals. I need to be able to drive a screw through it.”
“I come from a family of creators of all kinds. From carpentry to typography, we all can ‘make things.’ When I first began making these pieces, I experimented with a wide range of subjects: animals, flowers, inanimate objects, and even sports logos. As time has gone on, however, I’ve narrowed my focus to making just animals. This may change in the future, but for now, it is what inspires me most. Octopuses and animal busts are among my favourite things to create, and octopus pieces are by far the most sought after”.
Further elaborating on how she has come to appreciate art for art’s sake ever since stumbling across this form of expression, Daigle said, “There is far too much waste generated in the world. I want to do my small part to eliminate some of that while creating beautiful, unique works of art in the process.”
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