Badart

Welcome to BadArt, I am an artist and crafts person who uses recycle material. I take great joy in making something useful of nothings. I make rag rugs, baskets, bags, t-shirts, tins and reclaimed blocks.


I am Della Badart I was a Journalism Major but I have always loved art and making things. I love all mediums but focus on collage. It is perfect because I can use my layout and design skills from years in advertising. I now live in Austin, my aesthetic comes from the years I lived in Key West, Florida and my mother. I was surrounded by cool books astrology, meditation, yoga and wonderful stuff like that
I am inspired by nature and symbols. Whether it is a flag, a cross, or fleur de lis symbols bring up emotions within that are individual and uniting. These feelings make me seek out emblems which give me a inner peace and sometime turmoil. I started out making a batch of bottle cap magnets for a recycled art project and moved on to tins and larger boxes. I love the idea of creating a story in a confined space

I love to use recycle objects. Books, altoid tins, bottle caps, cabinets, reclaimed wood and bits of ephemera find themselves in my work. I love the entire process of making a piece. Most pieces start with symbols and/or the materials. I spend lots of time sorting through chest of clippings, magazines and piles or objects. I made a lovely tin box with a quote of Thoreau. I had put the box aside because it was some how incomplete. Weeks later at brunch I came across a picture of Thoreau I was overjoyed. Now the piece was complete. One little girl found a tin at a show with trumpeting angels; she said her grandma would love the box. When she bought the box she said she would incorporate a picture of her grandma who had passed on. I love the idea of her adding to the collage to complete her image.

I hope my collage work creates an image which resonates peace, serenity, loyalty; knowledge that thing that makes you cry or laugh. Advertisers, governments and businesses use symbols to carry the intense feeling. I want you to be touched and feel that same emotion each time you look at the images. I made them for you I just didn’t know it at the time.

Della Badart