Jozef Bajus, “Everything Stays”

Jozef Bajus is an eco-activist artist who believes that art can and should change the environment for the better. Everything Stays is a series of new works utilizing materials Bajus has collected for various projects over the past 20 years. Bajus embraces the aesthetic potential in discarded materials, transforming them and breathing new life into these objects using the physics of light and gravity. This allows visitors movements to interact with the artwork as their presence impacts the artwork literally. The aim of Everything Stays, as with Bajus’ other work, is that when audiences recognizes the ways they can interact differently with these familiar items, they will be inspired to see the need to reduce, the power of reuse, and the potential of recycling in their everyday life.