“Unauthorized Use Prohibited”: how about “Unplanned Product Packaging Prohibited”? Liquor bottles, like so many other corporate products, have dead-end packaging life-cycles, and thus end up as pollution– except for this one which is now a glass!
Cutting creativity! Four ladies from the village of Napua pose with 40 new glasses cut yesterday from old bottles at the Trashure studio after an intensive recycling workshop to prepare their wares for the village festival. The women take not only the glasses and a new cutter back to their community, but the idea that waste can be creatively transformed rather than just trashed. Since their last workshop in January they have come up with their own new ideas and creations– more to come on this!
The Latest Trash Abstracts
I’ve been working for almost a year now developing an exciting new technique for making fine art. For lack of a better term, I am calling the co-creations Trash Paintings.They are most definitively co-creations. In fact, this is where there real beauty lies....The latest trash woven “painting” by aunt Gloria in Sabagan, Philippines. A month long artistic oeuvre of recycling the chip and candy wrappers from her store. A collaboration with artist Russell Maier. Price 150$
The latest Trashure Clutch bags with silk lining and meticulous weaving by Aunt Eliza in Guina’ang village, Philippines
My friend just got back from delivering books to our library project in Guina’ang. He was able to take some photos of Eliza’s latest clutch bags (5) and cell phone cases (2). They are some of the best I have yet seen!Russs.net
Russell is a regenerative artist, inventor and philosopher based in Bali, Indonesia. He is one of the principals of global the Ecobrick. His regenerative theories are inspired by his time amongst the Igorot people, his journey with plastic and his work mandalas. Russell is currently working on a new theory of Earthen Ethics and Plastic Sequestration. You can follow him on Facebook