By Nanette Wong

Precious Waste is exactly what it sounds like. Questioning what exactly “preciousness” means and what makes something precious, artist Mariana Acosta began transforming waste material.

Part of the reason why Mariana began to work with waste materials is also because after graduating from a pricey school, that’s all she was able to work with. It is through her study of discarded material that she began studying how an object goes from ordinary to extraordinary.

Her process begins with two main stages— motivation and experimentation. Motivation revolves around surveying and collecting waste from everyone and everywhere, and seeing why some materials may be more commonly wasted or rare. Secondly, experimentation involves putting together the waste material, where a metamorphosis can occur. Through metamorphosis, waste material becomes valued and gives it more worth.

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