Next Level Hobbies: One man's trash is this artist's treasure

Stephanie has an outstanding sculpturing talent that is also environmentally friendly. She makes the most amazing animal sculptures from trash.

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00:00My name is Stephanie Hongo, I work under the name Sugar Fox as an artist and I make sculptures

00:25out of trash.

00:32I get the majority of my materials from friends and family.

00:35I don't have to go looking very far, honestly everyone has junk, everyone has junk.

00:40If I ever need materials, pretty much I just need to ask the people that I know.

00:48So the type of art I typically make is animals, almost all animals.

00:52I've done a couple logos, I've done some inanimate objects, I've done some human forms

00:57but for the most part, animals is my main thing and what I prefer to do.

01:06So the mission of my art has changed from the start of doing this.

01:11From the very beginning, the purpose of it was basically to make art from nothing.

01:18I didn't have any money and I wanted to be an artist full time, so that required some

01:23ingenuity.

01:25So trash isn't surplus and it's free, so I started just kind of sculpting with it because

01:31it was there and it's in every available shape, size, color, whatever you can imagine.

01:36But it's evolved since then.

01:39Now the mission is probably just to really make beautiful work from a recyclable source.

01:45It's wonderful that I can keep all of this stuff from ending up in a landfill.