Innovative Trash Transformations - John Schwarz

Turning Trash into Treasure

Stomp

Stomp

Wader

Wader

Spoonbill

Spoonbill

Metal sculpture resembling a mechanical jaw trap.

Crunch

Skater

Skater

Charge

Charge

Steampunk-style mechanical fish sculpture on stand.

Samson

Shore bird built with coffee pot, hockey sticks, and garden rakes.

Shore bird

A bee made with pots and pans, tennis rackets, hockey pucks and various machine parts

Spirit Bee

This fish is constructed of hockey sticks, garden tools, golf clubs, ceramic fins and various machine parts

Swordfish

Guru made with hockey sticks, a big metal blade, automotive pistons, and the cylinder head of an engine.

Gear Head

Owl made of space heater, a car spring, garden trowels and miscellaneous parts.

Hoot

A crocodile made of rakes, bicycle and lamp parts and other miscellaneous steel pats.

Tock

A penguin made of a compressor air tank with trampoline parts and various machine parts

Chilly Willy

A robot made with an air tank, a coffee pot, boat propeller, and various machine parts.

Fender

A dinosaur made with ceramic fins, golf clubs, a hedge trimmer, cement scales, and a bicycle seat.

Crocker-fella

Robot made with potter's wheel parts, baseball bats. a motorcycle helmit and plexiglass

Johnnie Rocket

A peacock with cross country ski feathers, garden claws, and bicycle seat for a head.

Roxie

Dog made with fence parts, pressure tank, hocky pucks and various machine parts.

Scrappy

Robbie is made of lamp and fence post parts, a file alarm box and various machine parts.

Robbie

Mechanical fish sculpture with metal fins.

Sport Fish

Jaws

Jaws

A goldfish with golf clubs, formica chips, diving fins, copper and wood.

Goldie

A frog constructed of a basting pan and bicycle parts with a crown made of door stops.

Prince

Retro-futuristic elephant-shaped mechanical sculpture.

Trunks

Scoutmaster

Scoutmaster

Speed Racer

Speed Racer

A wall piece constructed of a boat gas tank, aircraft gauges for eyes, vacuum cleaner parts, and a wood chipper part.

Wizard

Retro industrial-style wall light fixture.

Ammonite

Bullfrog made of garden tools, baking pan, track lights and bicycle parts.

Bull

An alligator constructed of bicycle parts, ceramic fins, a bicycle seat, beach umbrella parts and various other machine parts.

Gator

A seahorse constructed of cross country skis, a clarinet, formica chips, and various machine parts.

Seahorse

A race horse made of a mailbox, aluminum baseball bats, dock augers, golf clubs and various machine parts.

Reno

A female princess robot made with an air tank, lamp parts, skis, vacuum cleaner, plexiglass and miscellaneous machine parts.

Tinkerbell

This fossil is made with lamp parts, 2 stove burners, and a fan housing unit.

Fossil

A crocodile constructed of golf clubs, hockey sticks, ceramic fins, a hedge trimmer and various other machine parts.

Crocodile

A boat made of a terracotta hull, plexiglass sails, and miscellaneous parts.

Seaworthy

This mosquito is constructed with airplane parts, an airplane engine and wing parts.

Mosquito

Is a snapping turtle with hockey sticks for legs and corrugated construction material for the shell, and formica chips for the side and bottom.

Snappy Attitude

Mechanical sculpture resembling a whimsical creature.

Flipper

A tree frog made with formica chips, spoons, trampoline springs and motorcycle head lights.

Froggie

Lulu's wings are glass wing windows from a 1961 cadillac. The rest of her is all machine parts.

Lulu

A tiger fish with golf clubs, a post hole digger mouth, hockey sticks, a boat propeller and formica chips with various machine parts. It can be freestanding.

Tiger Fish

A fish made of ceramic fins, a boat propeller a rake, bicycle seat, and welded steel

Taco

A turtle constructed of wooden water skis and lamp parts

Sonic

A bird made of a coffee pot, hand trowels and an oil can head.

Peep

Constructed of more parts than any piece in the portfolio.

Johnnie Quest

She is constructed of a fire extinguisher, cross country skis and various hydraulic parts.

Medusa

A flying fish constructed of golf clubs, wood, welded steel and ceramic fins

Finnegan

Made with antique irons and machine parts.

Iron Man

A dog constructed of an antique mail box, golf clubs, a bicycle seat, trowels, and various machine parts.

Sparkie

A pelican constructed of a coffee pot, hockey sticks and hand rakes.

Howard

A grasshopper robot constructed of various machine parts.

Hopper

An elephant made of a retro toaster, door stops, and shoe horns.

Babar

A dog constructed of bicycle parts, garden spades, and an air tank.

Mc Ruff

A salmon made of ceramic fins, wooden slats, a rake, and welded steel

Coho

A sea turtle with ceramic fins, bicycle seat for a head, and a shell covered with cement solo cups.

Delilah

A nautilus constructed of lamp parts, a fan, wire and garden tools

Nautilus

An elephant made of a retro toaster and soap dish ears.

Tusker

120" x 70" x 41" A moose constructed downhill skis and machine parts

Rocky

A quail constructed with a coffee pot and garden clippers

Strut