The Change ID

Intelligent Design

I see the need for change in me
I see to change me to see
I see to be the change is key
I see to I but change me to we
I see me in the change we see
I see the change to be in me

Brenda Deschamp

The change generally

Brenda Deschamp: Artist as an Agent of Change

Brenda Deschamp hopes to inspire change through her art. Using discarded glass, recycled metal scraps, and odd pieces of industrial waste, she creates beautiful and unique pieces that serve as decorative art or functional items - vases, candleholders, potpourri dishes. Her pieces serve to demonstrate concepts of adhesion, defiance, and balance—mixing and matching elements to create new and remanufactured objects of art, turning her “trash into treasure.” She says each of her art pieces as a “call to the earth,” with it’s own voice, that can touch the heart of whoever receives it.

Deschamp is a self-taught artist who has developed her own techniques and processes over several years of experimentation and creation. She says that “anyone can create this kind of art” and wants to encourage others – artists and non-artists alike – to follow their muse and create their own art as a way to reduce waste, reuse materials, and create value and beauty from solid waste.

Brenda says she sees the remanufacturing of discarded materials into something of value as a kind of metaphor for finding value in society’s cast-offs. Imprisoned young men and women, the drug addicted and drug dealers, gang members and youth facing a future without job prospects or hope can be part of an effort to change society by tapping into their creativity. She points out that many young people end up in prison because they can’t succeed in an educational system that doesn’t educate them but forces them into roles they aren’t interested in playing. As a self-taught artist she has demonstrated that a formal education is not a necessity—an urge to create and persist in one’s artistic pursuits is more important.

She has sold her pieces at the Temescal Street Fair, Lake Merritt Art and Wine Festival, New Earth Artists Café, now @ www.Studio333.info in Sausalito, www.amrithika.com in Palo Alto and to private collectors. She has a studio in Oakland, CA. Brenda’s glass art can be seen online at www.TheChange-ID.com

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