Austen Zombres, originally from Sonoma Valley, has been collecting recycled cardboard and paper in SanFrancisco for over a decade. With a colorful library of found cardboard, he meticulously hand cuts intricate collages. His detailed pop culture, food and floral still life’s barely resemble collages. These hand cut upcyled assemblages read more as paintings. People are surprised to learn found trash can be something beautiful or even seem delicious.


Discussed this week: a decade plus of collecting colorful cardboard, Tajin seasoning and watermelon, mango, working with weed, recycled collage work, being a lifelong weed consumer, elevating life by doing drugs, smoking 10-30 spliff a day, going dry I'm New York, starting at 15, drug rugs, trauma relief in sour candies, emergency Terri's, being Neuro-spicy neuroplasticity, Spy Kids, Antonio Banderas, Zorb, White Walling the Bong, weed as a vaso dialator and tobacco as a vaso constrictor, forcing your body to shut down with whippets, hiking into a field of weed, locals don't do alcatraz, weed as a tool, Grabba, the source of creativity, clean lines, collage with photographs, the cleanest art you can do, texture and brush strokes, breaking things into shapes, being on the Today Show, making bird characters, Marlboro red vs coke red, the potential for a book, how breakdancing got its break, and more!

Find Austen on Instagram: @austenzombres


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