Andrew Levitas

I felt that I needed to do something more to tell stories, right?

And a single image wasn't enough, right?

And so the only way I could really also started to look for how do I tell a narrative story with photography, but in a single item.

And then I became fascinated with just the environment and all the terrible stuff we were doing to mess up the earth.

So I started looking for ways to talk about that, but not be, I don't know, overt or political, even in my 20s, just didn't feel like it.

Yelling at somebody was the right way to get a message across, right?

And making and hitting them over the head with it.

And so I started to look at aluminum and aluminum in particular was something that, you know, was recyclable.

It was reusable.

It was, it just wasn't as, I don't know, it didn't mess with sort of that, that cycle as much.

And I looked at it as a way to, and it was very malleable, right?

Because you can get it thin, you can get it thick, you know.

So I started etching on it to play with it.

And then I started melting my negatives onto the aluminum and try to create something more, like with more depth and three-dimension to it.

And eventually that ends up with, you know, I was still a fairly...

I mean, I feel like I was a boy, but, you know, young man or whatever.

You know, when you have a chance, you live by yourself in L.A., away from your family.

You have a house that basically was like a flammable art studio.

It's amazing.

The first thing you do when you go on Boy Meets World and make a couple thousand bucks is go buy a welding kit.