Mysterious creations saved from dumpsters and disasters

She was an impoverished descendent of nobility who could be spotted picking up glass, wood, bones and other discards along the roadside. With them, she created groundbreaking artworks. A triumphant retrospective was wrecked by flooding, as seen in the above photo by Cathy McErlean-Goddard.

Photo by Peter Moore © Northwestern University

Sari Dienes crossed paths with Yoko Ono, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and other avant-guard luminaries. Yet upon her death, her work was tossed into dumpsters. Here’s the strange tale of her surprising re-emergence, decades after her death.

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