“Demolished Goods”

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I have always liked seeing a worn down building, or a demolished building. As a photographer there is something mysterious about them. But I never really thought about what happens to the leftover material and demolished crushed pieces. There is one artists that has had the pleasure in partaking in this process. Robbie Rowlands uses demolished buildings to create is Depot Project. This project begs us to question the everyday objects that we take for granted, such as a very structures we live in. I like this idea of showing what we take for granted, I think that goes along the same line as waste and recycling. I believe that we get rid of things easily and we don’t cousciously think about the materials around us. We need to be more mindful of what we are throwing away and what should be recycled or even reused, or repurposed.

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Plastic Bear

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When I was looking at some eco artists I found a work done by the Eden Project near St Austell, Cornwall, UK. I haven’t been able to find a lot of information about it, but I thought the work was really interesting. The work is a polar bear sculpted from recycled plastic bags.

If you know anything about this work please let me know.

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Garbage on Display

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 What better way to see the amount of garbage we create by physically showing us. Justin Gignac is a New York City artist that has collected garbage from the streets of New York, and placed them in clear cubes. In 2001 he began creating and selling these cubes to people all over the world. Really! People are actually buying garbage, that really people would have thrown out or they would have thrown out. I guess that is quite a clever way on the artists part to show people our garbage as well as showing people to think twice of what they throw out. He is simply stating that you can reuse material more often then you think. 

Here is some of his work:

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Tires, More then just Wheels

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I have come by a lot of artists who have used tires as a focal medium in there artwork. You never think of tires as art or as something that would make a lot of waste in our world. But think about the amount of cars you see on the roads, you have trucks, motorcycles, vans, dirt bikes, ATV’s, etc. There are so many transportation vehicles that use tires. Now think, you don’t just use one set of tires your entire life. Tires wear down and lose there tread therefore they need replaced. Well what happens to the old tires? As far as I can think there must be a way you can melt them down or recycle them, and I know there are some companies that will collect your old tires and recycle them for various purposes.

An artist from Belgium had a different idea. Wim Delvoye decided he would use the “dead” tire to create sculptures. He looked at nature for inspiration while carving intricate flower and vine designs within the circular form of the tire. He creates a juxtaposition showing the delicate beauty of “Mother Earth” to the industrial manufacturing of the tire itself. You can see this push and pull of sustainability and environmentalism in his work where he first addresses that he is reusing the material to secondly his iconography of the natural landscape.

He uses no mechanical processes to carve into the tires. He strips himself of the mechanical, industrial mechanisms that our society is so focused on.

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Junk Artists Galore!!

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Here are a list of artists I have found relating to recycling and sustainability. Definitely check them out:

Leo Seowell

Leo has been created his style of recycled art for over 50 years now. He most famous works are built by recycled material such as plastic objects, metals, and woods that are all composed into a single sculpture

Nick Gentry

As I have talked abut in previous posts there is a major issues with e-waste. Technology is constantly changing therefore what do we do with our old, dated technology. Gentry decided to take on this challenge by creating paintings made on the surfaces of floppy disks.

Robert Bradford

Bradford has taken up the same style as Leo Seowell, by creating sculptures made from a collection of discarded material such as toys.

Yong Ho Ji

Yong Ho Ji creates his masterpieces out of recycled tires. He cuts and twists tire bits into a  sculpted form normally being animals.

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A New Recycling Tree

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Guerra De La Paz is a group of Cuban artists that use discarded clothing as there main material in there sculptures.

One project that I will be focusing on is their Tree sculptures.

As you can see they are clearly recycling material into their work. They are actively helping the environment, through one project at a time.

I couldn’t find too much information about them. If you know anymore feel free to share.

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One Mans Garbage is Another Mans Treasure

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Stuart Haygarth is a light designer that has been looked at a new eco-artist that uses “junk” to create beautiful lights. A series of his projects called Millennium from 2004 initially started by a one time piece where he sculpted 1000 explosive party poppers from the Millennium celebration in London in a shape of a chandelier. This work created a new series of works where he collected new party poppers to create lights.

On his site he perfectly explains the issue I have been talking about with recycling and how the inspired his project called “Drop”, in 2007.

“Drinking mineral water has become such an integral part of contemporary culture. There are many brands available and which brand you drink has become a lifestyle statement. One of the repercussions of this healthy drinking culture is the fact that the empty plastic water bottles are littering our landscapes and seas. Our landfill sites are being filled at an incredible rate with these plastic containers. Currently at airports we are not allowed to take water bottles through security checks and thousands of empty or half full bottles are confiscated. The water containers used in the work are donated and collected from Stansted Airport, London. This work focuses on the overlooked beauty and variety of these plastic water containers by concentrating on a small detail section, the base. The visual appearance of the plastic is slightly altered to produce a frosted glass quality. The first Drop chandelier was produced as a performance piece during Design Miami 2007.”

He has a lot more work on his site, go check it out.

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Inflatable Art

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Joshua Allen Harris

                    Joshua Allen Harris

Joshua Allen Harris is a New York City based artists that has risen to the challenge of showing the people of his city that there is a major issue of waste and recycling that needs to be managed. Harris uses pastil bags to create these inflatable polar bears that are paced over subway vents, that one the subways passes the temporarily inflate and assume its animal shape. Ultimately Harris’s main focus is on the discussion of climate change, specially on global warming. Over and over again, passerby’s watch this poor polar bear inflate and deflate, be born, and die. This gesture parallels the issue of climate control where our increasing green houses gases are allowing for the suns rays to pass through to our environment, but not allow them to escape causing the climate to rise, which in turn melts the environment where polar bears live.

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Hug A Tree

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Everyone has heard of the term  “tree hugger,” which is simple an environmentalist or person who believes that trees should not be cut down and make it there mission to protect these living things. Artists  Agnieszka Gradzik and Wiktor Szostalo decided to turn this word into a living artwork, where they collected branches from around a tree to construct “wicker-people” embracing the tree. These people are actual tree huggers. These wicker people are set up in a line, where you as the viewer can wait along with them to activity hug the tree, inviting people to respond and comment on the environmental issues surrounding trees.

This art project indirectly relates to the discussion of my blog, recycling. You wouldn’t think of the organic form of a tree being recycled but the by-product of the material paper is still an issue of recycling in our technologically based world.

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Illuminated Recycled Garden

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Pastic Bag Garden By Luzinterruptus

Pastic Bag Garden By Luzinterruptus

Art Group Luzinterruptus created an installation called “A Cloud of Bags Visit the Prado” outside The Prado Museum for 4 hours.They used 80 plastic bags each inflated by the wind were every single plastic bag had a light inside. This art intervention speaks to the problem of sustainability be illuminating the issue through art. These little bags of light in my opinion act as a metaphor for an idea described as a light bulbs shining; these illuminated bags are the light bulb ideas of recycling, that we need to find every way possible to recycle our material.

LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE, RECYCLE

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