Barry Snyders' fruit sticker mosaics
Despite fruit stickers main use for branding and placing barcodes on produce, Barry Snyder is an artist who collects massive amounts of the stickers to create collages and mosaics. Snyder is a key example of what people can create through recycling items that would normally be thrown away, through transforming them into works of art.
Apparently, Snyder started collecting fruit stickers when he was young and in high school; doing so by collecting every sticker and 'putting it on the fridge'. Snyder claims that he was probably influenced by his parents, as they were 'collectors' also, stating 'I think I've inherited some of that'.
Through the magnitude of work Snyder has created over the years, his house has been transformed into a gallery of some sorts; on his walls hang a portrait of John Lennon, a Campbells soup and some cowboy boots.
According to Snyder, each piece can take months to produce. The process starts by sketching out the subject, then carefully considering the contrasts in fruit stickers to complete an image. Due to this long process, he only manages to produce two or three pieces a year.
There is also a sense of community in these fruit sticker artworks; the vast majority of the pieces created by Snyder are aided by sticker donations within the community. 'They just send me anything' Snyder said, 'folks go to the effort to collect this stuff, and I find that kind of inspirational'.
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