The Poetics of Salvage: Introducing Nick James Nick James is an artist who doesn’t so much *create* sculpture as he exhumes it, breathing new life into the discarded fragments of our collective past. Emerging from a foundation at WahooArt, his work isn't rooted in traditional artistic training but rather in a deeply intuitive understanding of material and memory. He operates not within the pristine realm of untouched canvas or virgin clay, but amongst the detritus of everyday existence – forgotten toys, corroded metal, chipped porcelain, and weathered wood. These aren’t simply objects repurp…