our biology
what we do
Our Focus
We are an independent, woman-owned, small business startup located in Dallas, TX. Our focus is creating new, upcycled products using 90% or more pre-fabricated materials considered to be discarded, non-functional, and/or beyond repair, revitalizing them and lessening their environmental impact by keeping them out of landfills.
Our Model
Our business model has two main branches: functional + creative. The functional branch offers useful products for the home, office, and beyond, while the creative branch enhances quality of life with expressive pieces for art lovers. Each item is custom, handmade, unique, and has its own origin story: foraged from the wild, picked up from the curb, bought second-hand, or gifted from community partners.
Our Mission
Purchasing an item from redo squared supports the health of both our communities and the planet; we gift 1% of all completed sales to charities and organizations that build community engagement, support youth art programs, and/or help to conserve our natural world.
who we are
JW Lynn is a creative reuse artist currently designing in Dallas, Texas. Having left her career as an instructional designer to pursue more artistic endeavors, she is dedicated to integrating her art with eco-education, specifically to broaden our awareness about how we can help beautify and conserve our natural world.
Her work has been recently exhibited at the McKinney Performing Arts Center in McKinney, TX, The Kettle Art Gallery in Deep Ellum, TX and the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake in Dallas, TX. She also has a vendor space at The Enchanted Shop in Lewisville, Texas, which has a cycling selection of artwork available for sale.
She has had the amazing opportunity to be a student of visionary artists Alex Grey and Allyson Grey and has participated in art residencies on Buddhist traditional thangka painting taught by qualified sacred art teacher, Kadam Chris Heyes, at the Kadampa Meditation Retreat Center located in Northampton, UK.
Oftentimes mystical and a little odd, her work explores the whimsical, macabre, and spiritual world of perception, identity, and impermanence. Drawing from her spiritual life, JW believes that creative expression comes from a presence within, and that energy is communicating through what we demonstrate via artistic means. Art occurs when what we perceive gives rise to an emotional experience of connection.
“It’s not just about making offbeat art,” JW says. “It’s about changing people’s mindsets about how they view their trash and impact on the planet.” JW opts to be a creative reuse artist because it shows how form can be reutilized and transformed into a myriad of different identities. “We don’t always have to buy new, and we don’t always have to make our trash Mother Earth’s problem.” She is passionate about utilizing natural elements. “Natural or organic elements not only bring a piece of our natural world into the work, but it decays, diminishes, or deconstructs right in front of us. This readily available teacher is always showing us the life/death/life cycle of experience – a lesson we all should keep in the forefront of our minds to learn how to release our attachment to even the most beautiful of things.”
JW also studied extensively in design and digital art techniques while she obtained her Digital Filmmaking and Video Production BFA from The Art Institute of Dallas. During her studies, the curator of student exhibits personally requested that she show an artwork in the student gallery. JW was the only filmmaking student to be represented within in that show, and this piece was the beginning of her creative reuse mindset. After the show concluded, she ripped up the piece and used its materials in various other projects. Also holding a BA in English – Creative Writing, she is foremost a storyteller. Merging story, visual aesthetics, design, and education is her philosophical study and process that is present in every artwork.
In Dallas, you will find her grabbing used canvas and other materials off the street corner, in thrift shops being amazed at weird finds, stopping in awe of the beauty of a sunset or looking up into the sky on a starry night, or having a cup of coffee with a book, notepad, or sketchbook nearby.
“Life is long, but it is also oh so very short. Love your life so well so that on your last breath, with your heart at peace, you think – I am grateful.” – JW Lynn
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