If you can have more practical value, garbage is just an "art" to be designed "...

When Shanghai citizens are already struggling with "garbage sorting", we naturally cannot stand idly.

Although I have not yet been told, the questions from the soul have already penetrated into the streets and alleys. At this moment, there is no need to struggle or question it. You should know that "garbage classification" is only a process, not an end. If we can really exchange our "depression" for a moment for the "clear sky" of this world, who will refuse if we have a choice?

Of course, we still have time to wait and see for Shanghai, which is already on the line; but instead of "schadenfreude" with this buffer time, it is better to start with me now and start our "green life" step by step ".

What is "green life"?

First set a small goal: for example, take the initiative to choose, or even make more recyclable, low-consumption, and more artistic daily necessities, and use them to expel the "garbage siege" of life ".

Next, we will explore the "cleaner" expression of art and life from seven aspects: paper cutting, embroidery, wood carving, soap, ceramics, parts and plastics.

(1)
Paper cutting
○

Turkish artist @ Sena Runa uses various shades of paper to fold and stack to create three-dimensional paper sculptures.

Artist @ Lucila, who grew up in Argentina, Biscione to create surreal, dreamy scenes using paper cuts and illustration papers.

Compared with Runa's extreme detail structure, Biscione has added scene narration to his works. They each have their own characteristics, but they give paper-cut a "brand-new" expressive force in a certain process and can express more things.

②
Embroidery
○

Manchester artist @ Emily Botelho uses embroidery to express the unique ecological texture of the rocky seashore.

Embroidered raHosnedlov dress inspired by Karel Hugo Hilal's bedroom scene by Berlin artist @ Klá.

Compared with Botelho focusing on natural ecology, Hosnedlov focuses on the modal expression of characters. The former solidifies a vast ocean with stitches and threads, while the latter focuses on the imagination of the whole work in the scene outside the stitches.

(3)
Wood carving
○

Japanese sculptor @ Yoshitoshi Kanemaki captures the emotional complexities of young people in his three-dimensional portraits.

Taiwan sculptor @ Dong Mingqin's unique wood processing technique gives wood carving gauze the same expressiveness.

The starting point of the two is the same, giving the expression that wood carvings do not exist. However, compared with Yoshitoshi focusing on emotional expression, Dong Mingqin has more thoughts about life and invisible places.

④
Soap
○

Instagram author @ krasinthusith uses soap, melon and other to carve out amazing fantasy creatures and flower plants.

@ Mi Zhou, a student of the master's degree program in materials futures in central st Martin, turned soap into a disposable container.

Compared with the former, which plays the traditional soap, the latter gives soap a greater function after considering the feasibility.

⑤
Ceramics
○

The French-Japanese ceramic artist @ Kaori Kurihara took inspiration from plants to create textured ceramics that focus on form and geometric repetition.

@ Anna Barlow's large ceramic sundae.

Both are trying to approach the truth, but compared with Kaori's discovery of the beauty of plant details by falsehood, Anna's works are criticizing consumerism with "flowing reality.

⑥
Parts
○

French artist @ Edouard Martinet purchasing garbage metal and car parts from garage sales and flea markets to create all kinds of lifelike insects.

The Boeing store once launched a "custom hangar" category for aviation enthusiasts. The crafts are all transformed from real aircraft parts, and they have become luxurious furniture in the hands of designers.

The two reach the same goal by different routes, both of which are recreated by using waste parts, but the latter can exert greater waste heat compared to the ornamental value of the Martinet.

⑦
Plastic
○

Artist @ Devi Vallabhaneni integrated her dual interests in fashion and mathematics into her plant beading and designed plastic into flowers, giving plastic a new expression.

Considering the seasonal nature of flowers and the requirements for the growing environment; adding fragrance to it, this plastic flower may have a greater possibility.

Paper-cutting, embroidery and carving are traditional skills, but it is possible to give birth to new artistic forms in the use of different ways of expression.

Soap, ceramics and old parts are all conventional materials, but after the new artistic form and product function packaging can produce more additional value.

Plastic, as a universal material and ubiquitous garbage, can find the right way to express it and it can also coexist with art.

It can be seen that "garbage" does not become garbage voluntarily. If it is possible, who does not want to wear an artistic coat and supplemented by functional armor to "survive" in another way ".

PS: The picture material comes from @ thisiscolossal