While accumulating trash on the seaside, Riley came across a broken deck brush that looked like a piece of bone. Conventional scrimshaw consisted of ink drawings etched into whale bone by sailors, ornate performs frequently designed aboard whaling ships. By the 20th century, whale oil and whale bone objects ended […]
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Artist Aurora Robson has used the past two a long time turning trash into treasure, quite practically: Her multidisciplinary practice intercepts squander streams, reworking plastic particles into summary sculptures and large-scale installations that meditate on the state of the natural environment. She is also the founder of Venture Vortex, an […]

 For the previous 12 months, Roger Brenninkmeyer has been turning people’s trash into someone else’s treasure. The Metro Vancouver artist is the founder and resourceful director of the Plastic Essence Collaborative (PECO), a Burnaby-based artwork enterprise that turns plastic luggage and overwrap into gorgeous parts of 3-dimensional artwork. “We […]