Mosaic & Weaving The technique used in these artworks is similar to tiling. Mix concrete powder with sand, make wet and lay out a layer as thick as the height of the plastic bottle caps. Make sure the bottle caps are full of concrete as you push them down. This will prevent them from cracking… Continue reading Mosaic & Weaving
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Tess Felix
Tess Felix From the Waste Up: A Life Without Plastic – Tess Felix Tess Felix is an artist from the Bay Area in the US. She uses waste materials, mainly plastic from Stinson Beach, to create mosaic portraits of people. Some of the common trash items she finds and uses in her work are: parts… Continue reading Tess Felix
Alejandro Durán
Alejandro Durán For the love of the ocean and all that connects us… Derrame (spill) – Alejandro Durán Alejandro from Mexico transforms international beach trash into aesthetic yet disquieting art, with the goal of waking us up to the danger of plastic pollution. Vena (vein) – Alejandro Durán “Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape” is his… Continue reading Alejandro Durán
OCEAN SOLE
OCEAN SOLE Flip the flop T-shirt – by Ocean Sole Did you know that flip-flops constitute one of the most commonly found items of beach plastic? Every beach around the world will have a flip-flip or 100 floating around. How can this be? The footwear seems to have become “disposable”. As we all know, plastic… Continue reading OCEAN SOLE