new balance (detail) pipe cleaner sculpture element of the swimming hole installation, life size

american artist don porcella creates sculptures from pipe cleaners, and plays with the concepts of consumerism, reality and our own weird mortality.

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium swimming hole (detail) or ‘there you remain in the drain of the mainframe food chain’, 2008 -2010 pipe cleaner and mixed media sculpture, life size

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium ‘there must be a better place’ (turkey vulture with head), element of the swimming hole installation, life size

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium white rat with machos bag and machos (detail), element of the swimming hole installation, life size

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium detail of white rat with machos bag and machos (detail)

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium purple rat & plastic bag with cheetos, element of the swimming hole installation, life size

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium ‘going bananas’, 2009 24“x24“x24″

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium ‘fried’, 2009 10“ x 7“ x 1.5“

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium more 10“ x 7“ x 1.5“ packets

don porcella uses pipe cleaners as art medium ‘broker’, 2006 pipe cleaners, 10“ x 7“ x 1.5“

don porcella was born in 1963 in modesto, california. since 2002, he lives and works in staten island, NY.