Art Basel | Lonnie Holley on Making Treasures from Trash

October 14, 2023

K. Leander Williams

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"In terms of art, the roots of what I’ve learned to do go all the way back to my experiences at four and five years old in the ditches and creeks that were behind the house where we lived in Alabama. The creeks had animals like tadpoles and crayfish that would burrow themselves down into the dirt. The ditches had whatever people throw away. I used to run around and mess with it all, like children do. To this day, I would say that I’m most at home in the grit, finding what’s called trash." 

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