cast off

Her fanciful creations, some with comforting messages like “Be You,” are welded together from all kinds of cast-off materials, painted in bright colors and securely attached to the utility poles with four-inch bolts and chains.

Rags and cast-off clothing are embedded in some of Aparicio’s hangings.

Her throne was an old cast-off powder puff.

An untitled wall relief by Chiffon Thomas is a body-cast of his head and shoulders, held aloft by implied “wings” made from cast-off architectural posts.

The weight Andrusha had lost in prison showed starkly in the cast-off jacket that hung from her shoulders.