Kicker: You’ve got art!

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Some people struggle to draw even a decent stick figure. But Jessica Drenk takes junk mail, discarded cardboard, and recycled books and turns them into beautiful art. For one piece, she took a section of a book, dipped it into hot wax, let it cool, then sliced it in half:

DRENK: it looked more like a fossil than a book. And that was one of those like “Wow, this is really cool. I’ve gotta follow this and see where this leads.

Her creative experiments turned into wall pieces with layers that you’d think are actual sediMENtary stone.

DRENK: It just felt like folded bits of rock…like a whole mountain pressed together….So opposite to junk mail.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: I’m just trying to keep my junk mail from forming more piles.

MAST: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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