Author: Yingbao
Picking up garbage is fun, the process of picking up is fun, and the garbage is fun.
Seeing this, you may have made up the picture of stinking sky and sewage flowing in your brain, but people with clear brain circuits like to "jump" in the garbage heap.
His name is Kosuke Araki and he is a Japanese designer.
When Kosuke Araki was still studying at the Art Academy, the teacher assigned him a propositional assignment, "Alive". At first, Araki was sad, how to present such a suspended topic?
What kind of behavior proves that you are alive? From "sports" and "gatherings" to "laughing" and "crying", his thoughts were finally fixed on the physiological instinct of "eating".
Not only human beings who need to eat, but also fresh ingredients in supermarkets and fruit peel stems that have been thrown away are also things that have been alive.
He began squatting in the garbage room near his home, collecting the materials of his work, the "living" embodiment (kitchen waste).
After carefully doing statistics, he was shocked to realize that the amount of food wasted by everyone was far beyond imagination, and even many ingredients were thrown into the trash can untouched. He came up with a longer-term idea that went beyond the scope of the job:
Let the food waste return to everyone's table!
Don't be disgusted, of course, not to eat spoiled food.
He burned the leftovers into charcoal, boiled the bones and tendons into glue, fused the two into clay-like clumps, then fabricated and molded them into the shape of a dinner plate and rice bowl, and finally dried or fired into a hard material. The steps are similar to making ceramic vessels, except that the materials used change from clay to kitchen waste.
Leftovers after the "rebirth" once again have the value of being put on the table and have become works of art that innovate environmental protection ideas.
According to a report released by the international environmental organization Greenpeace, 1/3 of the food is wasted worldwide every year, and 8%-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are related to it. If Araki's "kitchen waste recycling" is popularized, it will reduce the frequency of waste incineration, which in turn will reduce the rate of climate warming.
Araki named the vessel "Soul", echoing the work of the year "Alive".
Tom Deininger, from the United States, is also an environmental artist who plays with garbage. But compared to Araki's Zen works, his means of showing the "beauty of garbage" are much simpler and cruder.
Spell out world-famous paintings with garbage.
His works, from a distance, are brilliant and colorful peony oil paintings, but up close, they are clusters of telephone lines, dolls and plastic pieces:
Looking at this painting again, don't think that it is a copy of Monet's "Water Lily Pond and Nihonbashi", it is just a bunch of abandoned toys:
This painting resembles the Japanese ukiyo-e style "Waves", and is naturally an abandoned electronic product:
Tom Deininger's "famous garbage paintings" are all three-dimensional and large-scale art installations, which also give people a more shocking visual impact.
The themes of his works mostly revolve around the blue sea and blue sky and spring flowers, because "human beings throw garbage to nature, and I take back garbage from nature's hands." I use garbage to reproduce its beauty to tell human beings: nature is tolerant, but don't challenge its bottom line."
The same is playing with garbage, Chinese architectural designer Huang Qianzhi is more bold.
Others just used garbage to make some ornaments or gadgets, but he used discarded plastic bottles to build a 9-story building.
In 2010, Huang Qianzhi led the team to create an exhibition hall called "Huansheng Ark" for the Taipei Flower Expo in China. Huansheng Ark is the world's first green building to be converted from plastic beverage bottles.
The walls of the Ark are made of 1.52 million empty plastic bottles. Huang Qianzhi did not use adhesive, because it is not environmentally friendly, but refers to the principle of ancient Kong Ming lock, through the card mortise to let the plastic bottles borrow power from each other, buckle, to solve the construction of plastic bottles and load-bearing problems.
At first, when everyone saw the drawings of the Huansheng Ark, they all thought that this was another performance art, but they did not expect that after its completion, they passed the building quality requirements such as fire prevention and waterproofing one by one, and it was a building that could be put into practice and could live in people. This means that plastic, a garbage that is difficult to decompose, has a new means of disposal.
The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal of the United States presented Huang Qianzhi with the "Earth Award" and the "Asian Innovation Award" in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
To Huang Qianzhi's surprise, he had thought that the Huansheng Ark could only be used for one year, but seven or eight years later, the building was still standing, standing firm in the wind and rain and in the sun.
"Garbage" is just a term, and if it is used in the right place, it can turn waste into treasure.
Although we do not have the brains and hands-on ability of designers, if we can do not waste food and do a good job of garbage sorting, we can also contribute to slowing down global warming!