Cardboard Chronicles...
Cardboard is one of the most overlooked materials in contemporary life—temporary, disposable, and often discarded the moment it fulfills its function. Built to carry goods, protect objects, and then disappear, it exists in a cycle of constant use and immediate abandonment. Yet within that neglect lies its power.
For The Cardboard Chronicles, cardboard becomes a reclaimed canvas. Each piece carries an inherited history before the first brushstroke is ever applied. In choosing cardboard, ATTIE continues its commitment to transforming the ordinary into artifact—elevating what is forgotten into something worthy of preservation.
This material also speaks to sustainability. Rather than relying solely on newly manufactured stretched canvas, these works repurpose an abundant and recyclable medium, reducing waste while extending the life of something designed to be fleeting. Cardboard allows painting to exist not as excess, but as renewal.
The imperfections of the surface—the bends, corrugations, softened edges, and industrial scars—become collaborators in the image-making process. They remind us that beauty does not always arrive on pristine ground. Sometimes it is built upon what the world has already used.
The Cardboard Chronicles is therefore both a visual series and a philosophy: proof that value can be painted onto what was once considered valueless, and that even the humblest material can become timeless when given a second life. This is will be a collection of 80 or 100 pieces, haven’t decided where I’m going to stop just yet, but the collection will continue to grow periodically. Click the link below and to remain updated on the latest to be added to the collection.
