Kim Weller, a 2006 artist-in-residence at the San Francisco dump, created the above piece from recycled thin plywood and recycled paint from the Household Hazardous Waste Facility. The result, titled “Friendly Fire,” is based on the cover to an Archie comic book. The Associated Press reports:

While much of the art that gets made at the dump has an industrial feel to it, such as the ethereal sculpture crafted from empty vodka bottles, artist Kim Weller decided to take her work to another level earlier this year. Weller scavenged thin sheets of wood from abandoned doors and shipping crates, sanded, repaired and painted them in Day-Glo colors that mirrored the safety vests dump workers wear.

The result was a 3-D re-creation of a summer’s day at the beach scene from the cover of an Archie comic book. Captivated by the juxtaposition of the innocent idyll she produced and the bleak, industrial landscape it occupied at the dump across a freeway from San Francisco Bay, she named the piece “Friendly Fire.”

Check out more angles of the sculpture here.

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