Design
Artist Turns London's Garbage Piles Into Bizarre Monsters
With bright paint and an eye out for the police, Francisco de Pájaro transforms street rubbish into hilarious googly-eyed freaks.
Most people don't give garbage a second glance. Artist Francisco de Pájaro gives it a second, third, and fourth glance, and then returns later to doll it up into something resembling a really mess-up human face.
Well, not just human – using bright, messy paints and a knack for arranging trash that rivals Japanese ikebana masters, Pájaro has transformed a construction dumpster into a toothy shark, a stack of cardboard boxes into a lecherous centipede, and piles of bin bags into what looks like a Smurf snuggle party. "Art Is Trash," as he is known in street-art circles (in his native Spain, it's "El Arte es Basura"), has never met a heap of rubbish that he can't in some way make googly-eyed hilarious.