CREATIVE PRACTICE
The eco-trash sculptures of Tim Pugh inspires this month's creative practice. Pugh often creates art from human rubbish left in the natural world to raise awareness and help the clean-up effort.
1. On a walk or several walks, collect debris and garbage.
2. Wash or rinse your findings. Arrange them.
3. Photograph your work and write a reflection of your process. Where did you find your materials? What did you notice about the specificity of the items? What pieces of found material spoke to you most, and why? What do the materials tell you about the place? What does your sculpture have to say about the place where you walked?
4. Dispose of the trash properly.
I created my eco-trash art work (above) using debris I collected on a 30-minute walk around my Oak Park, Illinois, neighborhood. I was surprised to find along the sidewalks several tags from store-bought flowers among the litter. It seemed appropriate to create a floral sculpture/arrangement. I used my own flowerbed at home as the "ground" for this rubbish bloom. Ironically, several pieces of trash were labeled with environmentally friendly messages like "recycle" and "non-GMO."
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