(6 Mar 2020) LEAD IN: A Yemeni artist finds the beauty hidden in the least likely of places: the waste bin.
He collects and refurbishes discarded items, turning them into art.
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Yemeni artist Yassin Ghaleb does not need to make an expensive trip to an art supply store to make artwork.
To get the materials that go into his art, he searches high and low, even collecting items from street trash.
Seemingly unimportant objects to others are materials of great value to Ghaleb, who hopes his work will deliver a message.
"If we look closely at things, we will find something beautiful even in the trash," he says.
Items that have been discarded could get a second lease on life at his working space.
From piles of damaged metal cans, wood fragments and bones of animals, art finds a way at Ghaleb's hands.
"We can beautify the ugliness that has filled our lives and brought us to this miserable state," he says.
Yemen, the Arab world's poorest nation, has been convulsed by civil war since 2014.
The war and subsequent salary cuts have pushed the 60-year-old architect turned into this pastime.
Ghaleb cleans and reshapes materials to keep himself busy with something that he enjoys.
When he is happy with the result, he puts his art up on a wall next to the rest of his work.
He hopes to work on larger installations one day, allowing him to express deeper cultural concepts and ideas.
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