Sandhi Schimmel Gold may be the most unusual person in the world.
How so? Well, unlike most people, she actually enjoys getting junk mail.
Even stranger: She may make more money off it than the companies that send it to her.
Gold, 56, is perhaps the world's only artist who uses junk mail as her medium. That's right, she makes beautiful, intricate collages using old menus, catalogs and coupons that come to her in her mailbox.
The results are beautiful portraits that can sell for up to $10,000 per piece -- and since she gets most of her materials free of charge, her profit margin is very very high.
Rest of article with pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/14/junk-mail-artist-turns-postal-refuse-into-amazing-portraits/
How so? Well, unlike most people, she actually enjoys getting junk mail.
Even stranger: She may make more money off it than the companies that send it to her.
Gold, 56, is perhaps the world's only artist who uses junk mail as her medium. That's right, she makes beautiful, intricate collages using old menus, catalogs and coupons that come to her in her mailbox.
The results are beautiful portraits that can sell for up to $10,000 per piece -- and since she gets most of her materials free of charge, her profit margin is very very high.
Rest of article with pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/14/junk-mail-artist-turns-postal-refuse-into-amazing-portraits/
