Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Junk Art in 99 cent form
Plasticdragon by ~toge-NYC on deviantART
In today's design world and the industry, a key factor is "sustainability" and also a new factor in the more recent years has come to be the idea of "going green" with our designs and art. The Junk artists of the 60's touched on this by using discarded material and "recycled" them in a way so as to reinvent the objects together into "art". In the same way does this artist take plastic (cheap) utensils together to create a work that is stunning to look at, but at the same time something that shows good form and composition and also creative use of material. While the work itself isn't made from "green" material i.e. leaves, recyclable paper, etc, the artist makes use of material that would normally be discarded by the average human without a thought of recycling it in any form or manner, especially not as art such as this. The artist made this without an already planned form/framework, and practically worked from scratch- such imagination and ability to make such a thing without planning it out impresses the viewer. A private project, the artist would do well in continuing such endeavors with creative materials such as this to create more works that showcase a "return of the junk art". And if you ever needed a spoon you could just grab it off the statue. Though doing so would be ill-advised.
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