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Dryer lint might seem like meaningless household waste, but it has actually been used as an artistic material.
Artists can collect lint made from tiny fibers, hair, and other particles released from clothing during washing and drying.
The material can be arranged, printed, or incorporated into artworks.
What makes it interesting is that the material comes from ordinary everyday life rather than a traditional art supply.
It can even preserve traces of the people and objects that produced it.
Something normally thrown into the trash can therefore become a record of everyday human activity.
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art