trash as art material?!
You can find it everywhere: in your kitchen, preserving your freezer veggies, safeguarding your potato chips and unnecessarily protecting your bananas; in your closet, shielding your toilet paper and paper towels from dust; in your office, wrapped around your fresh stack of folders; and everywhere else as you’re handed your takeout meal in a plastic bag or buy some fresh flowers in a frilly plastic wrapper.
All these soft plastics, aka lightweight plastic film, are usually marked with the #4 LDPE recycling symbols, are in fact some of the least recyclable plastics anywhere in the world. Most curbside recycling programs don't accept LDPE because it's lightweight, difficult to store, and can get tangled in recycling equipment.
Yes of course!
Single-use plastic is trash
and FREE art material.
Luckily, one of the best ways to keep them from the waste stream is by using them as an art material! When they are used to create art, art is the action verb which helps clean up our one and only planet and encourages more people to do the same.
If you’re curious about exploring alternative materials for your art practice, whether as a professional artist or an adventurous discoverer….
You’ve landed in the right place!
Whether you’re a kid or an adult. Really!
DIVE IN RIGHT HERE ⬇️
And I am here to help!
I’m Natalya and my mission is to help other artists who struggle with knowing where to start using repurposed materials such as single-use plastic, to achieve their creative vision.
Here, at ECOLOOP.ART you will find workshops for kids and adults, which you can take virtually on your own or book an in-person workshop for your community.
There are also free workshops and challenges available to you here, so that you can dip your toe in before committing to a more intensive learning experience.
