Dusty Art by Alison Kortson Bashny.Net

What we believe misfortune, 34-year-old artist from Los Angeles Alison Kortson used as a material for art. This is an ordinary house dust. Using a special technique creates a picture of Alison dust that collects in the houses of their potential customers. "Chips" Miss Kortson are portraits of people on the background of the interiors of the dust that is collected in the homes of most people. The artist takes the order, goes to the house with a vacuum cleaner and a couple of weeks, the customer receives a finished painting. As you can see, from the dust consist only backgrounds, people in the pictures Alison paints with acrylic paint












Kortson says it chose the dust as a material for creativity because house dust by 70% consists of desquamated skin particles inhabitants of the house (Boe). That is to say that the picture is made of the person who is depicted on it. The names of their creations Alison gives the corresponding "Maggie and her dust", "Jeffrey and dust", "Banks family and their dust" etc.









To work Alison does not use any intricate devices. All she needed - a filter for dust, acrylic paint and varnish picture. To create a canvas of the artist takes several days. The cost of such a picture - a few hundred dollars. So for a relatively short time Miss Kortson well prospered

Alison Kortson himself