Don Porcella is contemporary American multimedia artist, most known for his pipe cleaner sculptures and encaustic paintings. Don Porcella is elevating low-brow, mass-market craft materials into high art. His subjects are usually inspired by consumerism, nature, the human condition, science fiction and folk art with humor.
Porcella’s mother, Yvonne Porcella, inspired Don to invent a weaving technique using pipe cleaners. The work being submitted to the de Young museum is entitled “Harbinger,” a mythological character called Earth Monster who is mysteriously beheaded and left on a tree stump that is a cross section of a human leg. This object spells doom for our humanity and our planet.

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