Art made from trash can be found in great variety of forms from the shadowed figures in exhibitions of Tim Nobel and Sue Webster’s work to classroom art projects.
In this Independent Study Project I aim to repurpose the discarded by making a series of art pieces out of found materials. The actual plan for pieces is undetermined, as I have to leave room for inspiration from the materials I find.
As an outreach component to my project I will create a blog posting images of my projects as well as a description of how I crafted them and a list of the materials I used. These will include photos of the materials: before, during and after. In creating this blog I hope to spread awareness of the pressing problem of consumption and overuse our society has grown accustomed to and encourage smarter use of products, so that materials produced are used more efficiently and less carelessly.
My projects will range in practicality; to demonstrate the repurposing of the everyday seemingly mundane I will make a range of transformed materials into décor or into objects serving an alternative function. This will appeal to a larger variety of people as the applicability of the project to their lives will be more tangible, but I also aim to create less functional projects as well, to try and push the crafter’s culture conception of recycled art.
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