We have shown [entire galleries](https://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/new-museum-art-and-design.php)and [slideshows](https://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/02/amazing-art-created-from-trash.php) where artists have started with garbage and turned it into art; James Carl does the opposite, and takes artists’ traditional materials like marble and turns it into garbage, like this series of takeout containers. Long before bottled water was a big issue, he played with the stuff. James Carl tries to [describe the piece:](http://www.torontosculpturegarden.com/JamesCarl.htm) > It takes root in codes — electrical, civil, horticultural, aesthetic — and it accepts these as its first principles and material resources. It attempts to make object those regulatory axioms which define its social and historical situation. fountain is a monument to obeyance; it dispenses observance; and through its complicity and compliance, attaches itself to the site and to the world. > >