Author: Shijia Zhou

Facial features/Parts of body

Clothing

Performance Art

There are many coincidences between fashion and art that are surprisingly similar.

Ptolemy Elrington

UK artist Ptolemy Elrington scours the sides of highways for lost hubcaps to use as the main material in his gorgeous aquatic inspired sculptures. Made from common highway flotsam, Elrington cuts, adds and bends to form memorable sculptures that have found homes all over the world.

“I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.” Ptolemy Elrington is an artist based in the coastal city of Brighton, and his sculptures explore the damage caused by unsustainable resources. In using found objects from manufactured products, such as shopping trolleys or car hub caps, Erlington opens up a vital dialogue about the impact of waste on our environment.

Wim Delvoye

Belgium artist, Wim Delvoye has used all sorts of materials in his art from tattoos to excrement. In his tire series, he used old car tires which he then intricately carved with delicate patterns. The heavy objects take on the feeling of being highly fragile and valuable.

Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is famed for his transformation of used objects into spectacular artworks. For his series on tires, Delvoye carved delicate floral and organic patterns into different  tires. Although the tires kept their original circular shape, the result looked like it was made from cast metal or carved wood. Delvoye also uses metal, steel caps, or even dump trucks to turn his works into precious lace-like shells.

Recycle Art

Today, more people are seeking to shrink their carbon footprints. Some artists have gone as far as to create artistic pieces that demonstrate the impact a person’s carbon footprint has on the world. These pieces are usually jarring observers and catch the eye of, particularly environmentally friendly collectors. Art can literally change the world.

Recycled art can be made of many different materials used in creative ways:

• Discarded glass bottles can be broken and used in a mosaic
• Old used paper can be recycled and repurposed into paper mache sculptures
• Broken and abandoned electronics can be used in a sculpture or taken apart and used in pieces

Artists who seek to create from what has been neglected, forgotten, and thrown away just might be able to catch the eye of an eco-minded art collector. The pieces will be of keen interest to an art lover because they will breathe a new life into the material that was previously bound for the landfill. This is a great way to reach eco-savvy buyers.

I started collecting plastic boxes plastic bag, paper bag even plastic bottles and because I didn’t have anything to store, and I had boxes or bags that I could use for storage as well as materials that I needed later, which was also economical, environmentally friendly, and reusable.I have a great sense of accomplishment in collecting anything, and I also collect collages made by others for inspiration, and I like collages very much because they can cause a big visual conflict and I like handcrafting, so I will try to collect materials from my life.

Collage is a form of recording daily life for me.
They are all broken and turned into various collage elements.
Reassemble under the instructions of the brain and become a new community of meaning.
Everything can be collaged, unfettered and super free.
I think this is the charm of collage.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

•