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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. 

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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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