{"id":3068,"date":"2017-01-09T20:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.uk\/wp\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:51:14","slug":"environmental-art-earth-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/environmental-art-earth-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental art &#8211; planet earth in a kitchen waste bin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-contemporary-art-sculpture-earth-rubbish-bin.jpg\" alt=\"environmental contemporary art sculpture\" title=\"Contemporary art environment sculpture bin\u201d\nsrcset=\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental contemporary art \u2013 the Earth in a kitchen waste bin.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kitchen waste bin, digital display. &nbsp;&nbsp;  January 2017,   Cornwall.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an example of my work on environmental issues such as global warming and climate change. This sculpture addresses the issues of over-consumption, environmental degradation and waste. I have been creating work about the state of the natural world and the environment since the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From most angles (as in the image on the left, above) the bin looks like any conventional kitchen bin: however when viewed from the front (the image on the right, above) the opening in the bin is transformed into a portal to the cosmos, with the Earth suspended in the darkness of outer space.<br>\nThe inside of the bin is pitch black due to the use of extremely matt black paint, while the Earth shines as a back-lit image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-contemporary-art-earth-bin.jpg\" alt=\"environmental contemporary art sculpture\" title=\"Contemporary art environmental sculpture\u201d\nsrcset=\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The work carries the environmental message that the human race is treating the earth with contempt and that we are effectively placing the planet itself in the rubbish bin.<br>\nThe work is a development of a concept that I had in about the year 2000, when I produced several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrismadden.co.uk\/cartoon-gallery\/environment-cartoon-environmental-forecasting\/\">environment-themed drawings<\/a> of the earth falling into a wastepaper basket. The sculptural potential of using a real rubbish bin to create an illusion of outer space is a more recent development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A version of this work was shown in my solo show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a video of the work showing the dramatic optical illusion effect of the work which can only be appreciated in three dimensions of on video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/926309900?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Earth in kitchen bin\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental contemporary art \u2013 the Earth in a kitchen waste bin. Kitchen waste bin, digital display. &nbsp;&nbsp; January 2017, Cornwall. This is an example of my work on environmental issues such as global warming and climate change. This sculpture addresses the issues of over-consumption, environmental degradation and waste. I have been creating work about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,107,16],"tags":[29,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8543,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/8543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}