Finding Beauty in Junk

Apolo Tirol's art is about transformation. 

Long before his art came into being, visiting the local junk shops was already his pastime. He takes pride and finds joy in chancing upon little knickknacks and using them as material for a project at hand. He would use old refrigerators as breeding ponds for fish, and old electric fans as bird cages.

 

But in early 2022, he was staring at a load of old motor chains at the junk shop and began to visualize junk beyond its use as spare parts.  Soon enough, his imagination sprung out which led him to conjure his very first junk art, Seahorse No. 1. From then on, he views junk with dual sets of eyes, one for utility, the other for discerning the potential beauty each piece could become. For Apolo, anything can be junk or art. The difference only lies in imagination, intention and heart.

(Sep 2023)