Joy Goldkind
goldkindj@optonline.net
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Joy Goldkind
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The scrap yard has been part of my family's history since the late
1950's. It began as a "Junk Yard", a place to dump old storm doors,
broken windows and other scraps of discarded metal things.
Today as the world's raw materials are diminishing, industry and
consumers are interested in "recycling". The junk of the 1950s now
commands a premium at architectural salvage firms and the metal that
used to be scrap is worth dollars per pound.
The recycling industry has become a prominent and lucrative sphere of
manufacturing. The reuse of materials is central to this body of
work. The machinery and processes that enable the makers of primary
materials to use scrap again, creating a closed cycle of consumption
is both a critical component of the economy and mimics the natural
circle of life. Metal as we know it begins life deep in the earth, it
is mined and manipulated into refrigerators, cars, jewelry, and other
products, as its use diminishes and ages the metal returns to the
recycler and their furnaces for rebirth to be used again.
This body of work is only beginning for me. It is part the history of
my family and the story of how the recycling industry has grown and
the part our family has played in it.
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