Recycled art

  • Environmental art – heads created from discarded milk bottles

    contemporary environmental sculpture from consumer waste - sculptural head created from milk bottles

    Milkman

    Plastic milk bottle, ink    August 2018

    Slightly unsettling heads created from empty plastic milk bottles.

    Like many artists I have a habit of collecting waste and recycling it into works of art.
    The slightly sinister appearance of these heads, drawn as they are on post-consumer waste in the form of discarded plastic milk bottles, can be interpreted as a comment on the fact that we as humans are destroying the environment through (amongst other things) our profligate use of plastic packaging (I’ve been producinng work connserned with environmental issues since the 1970s).
    The fact that the heads also resemble the type of craft-play objects produced by children can be interpreted as alluding to the western world’s current tendency towards a philosophy of consequence-denying pleasure seeking in which the adults in society fail to take responsibility for their actions beyond immediate self-gratification.

    contemporary environmental art sculpture created from consumer waste - heads created from plastic milk bottles

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