How would you deliver a message about recycling by producing art work, that illustrates your own feelings about the issue of recylcing :)
2007-03-23 08:57:39 · 7 answers · asked by ♣Kermit the Frog♣ 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Make some sculptures out of recycled materials, take some pictures and place them online or around your community.
2007-03-23 09:06:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think this depends very much on your preferred medium and your target audience.
One of the most striking pieces of recycling that I have seen is a waste paper bin made from recycled paper. I love the cyclic theme of this - to throw paper into a bin for re-cycling that is used to make a bin for recycling paper.
It would be interesting to see a piece of art like a collage where the materials used were recycled material but showing where they originated. Some fleeces are recycled from - what? Or a sculpture of drinking glasses made from recycled glass put together in the shape of the bottle from which they might have been recycled.
2007-03-23 16:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by LadyOok 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
few suggestions... use the recycled materials to portray an image of what they can be turned into... e.g. make a sculpture of a car out of tin cans (if tin cans can be recycled into car parts?) or something like that.
alternatively use photography... portray the landfill sites or black bin liners full of rubbish, along side the freshness of stacked cardboard and clean plastic bottles/tubs etc.
or... I would produce two timelines.... the life of an aluminium can....
timeline one... not recycled.... I am a tin can, I am made, I am filled with some fruity little fizzy drink and placed on a shelf with my fellow cans... I am picked, drunk, and thrown in the black bin liner.... it has been a very short life... now I live surrounded by smelly landfill... I will be here for a good million years trying to decay...
timeline two... recycled..... I am a tin can, I am made, I am filled with some fruity little fizzy drink and placed on a shelf with my fellow cans... I am picked, drunk, and put in the green box... I am reprocessed and filled with another drink and placed next to my fellow cans again..... and again... and again... etc. etc.
quite simplified idea of the issues though... basically portraying recycling as good and not recycling as bad..
(alternatively, if the issue of recycling really makes you crazy then you could use recycled materials to produce a replica of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" )
2007-03-23 16:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would paint a huge canvas depicting the damage unrecycled produces have on animals and nature. All the rubbish we throw away on streets corners, on beaches, in the countryside either sits and rots, or can cause some creature harm or death.
I am feeling depressed just thinking about it.
I have come across too many injured birds and wildlife, and seen so much rubbish littering the countryside not to recycle as much as I can.
2007-03-23 16:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by Happihawkeye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a couple of great ideas to do searches of. I love to make "something from nothing" and some of these key phrases will have your creative juices flowing!
Trash to treasure
Found object art
Waste not want not
recycled ____________ (fill in the blank of the item for recycle. ie. tires, metal, plastic, glass, etc.)
2007-03-23 20:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by Jennifer D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i was going to make the same suggestion that Snow Angel has made(her first suggestion) its a good one, you should go with her answer as the best one
2007-03-23 17:08:12 · answer #6 · answered by xtina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't throw me away ! i might me your work !
2007-03-23 16:02:20 · answer #7 · answered by nobody100 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋