{"id":3874,"date":"2018-09-03T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2024-03-20T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:27:48","slug":"environmental-art-heads-created-from-discarded-milk-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/environmental-art-heads-created-from-discarded-milk-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental art &#8211; heads created from discarded milk bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-environmental-sculpture-plastic-bottle-head-6444.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary environmental sculpture from consumer waste - sculptural head created from milk bottles\" title=\"contemporary sculpture from consumer waste - sculptural heads created from milk bottles\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Milkman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plastic milk bottle, ink &nbsp;&nbsp;     August 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Slightly unsettling heads created from empty plastic milk bottles.<\/p>\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\/925544992?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=\"contemporary sculpture milk bottle heads\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many artists I have a habit of collecting waste and recycling it into works of art.<br>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&#8217;ve been producinng work connserned with environmental issues since the 1970s).<br>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&#8217;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. <\/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\/milk-bottle-heads-contemporary-sculpture-6464.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary environmental art sculpture created from consumer waste - heads created from plastic milk bottles\" title=\"contemporary sculpture from plastic waste - sculptural heads created from plastic milk bottles\"\/><\/figure>\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\/925547395?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=\"milk bottle head sculpture\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milkman Plastic milk bottle, ink &nbsp;&nbsp; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,16],"tags":[29,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}