Visual art has been defined as a vehicle for expression or communication of emotions and ideas. Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. Contemporary artist HA Schult is an internationally renowned German artist who takes unwanted trash and transforms it into figures, creating large-scale art installations--a statement on society's relentless consumption. How can high-school students communicate concern about ecological and environmental damage? In this project, students were challenged to give life to inanimate objects; use trash and recyclables as their subject; and communicate about the issues of waste disposal, recycling, endangered species, erosion, and pollution. (Contains 1 online resource.)