Thursday 9 May 2019

You can only create a planet B in your head


This year's challenge for the textile workshop I'm part of was for each of us to create a unique piece inside a wooden wine box. We would only use waste materials and the project is part of a broader awareness campaign around climate change, plastic pollution and nature conservation.
My piece evokes a fictional world with  natural elements and dwelling units in a landscape.
I used plastic containers, waste textiles and cord, small cardboard rolls, metal spirals from notebooks that I crumpled, broken clothespins, some wool, a broken stand of a frame, broken glasses, seaglass, packaging materials, a broken fake jewel and some clay.  I used some old leftover paint to lend some aesthetic unity to the whole.
the colours and the smooth surfaces give this Planet B a surreal and uncanny optimism.
I just wanted to suggest that, even IF it would be possible, why would we want another planet to live on? This one is fantastically wonderfully beautiful! Let’s take care of it - we know what we have to do.







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    1. Hee dank je wel!! Ik was er een beetje onzeker over dus jouw comment is fijn!!

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  2. goed concept, goed uitgevoerd en ik denk dat je er heel wat plezier aan beleefd hebt

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    1. Dank je wel Carla, wat een fijne feedback!! En inderdaad ik vond het heel leuk om te doen, een echte uitdaging waar je lang mee bezig kunt zijn!

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