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Turn Trash into Treasure. Love thrift stores and garage sales? Are you a master at finding hidden treasures? You can take your purchases, rehab them, and then sell them. That could mean digging ...
Sanitation workers in Massachusetts saved the day when they managed to recover a lost diamond that fell out of a ring and into the trash.. An unnamed woman from Watertown had got herself into “a ...
Armed only with glue guns, curiosity and refuse relics, critically acclaimed assemblage artist Josh Waddell of '3 Bulls Upcycling' led a group of students on a journey to turn trash into treasure.
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
His collage-like sculpture is assembled from metal, wood, and plastic that he collects from trash, yard sales, and flea markets. [3] For some commissions, he uses objects, often of sentimental value or with personal meaning, contributed by the patron who has commissioned the art. [4] Sewell has produced over 4,000 works over the last 50 years.
Trashion (a portmanteau of trash and fashion) is a term for clothing and accessories created from used, thrown-out, found, and repurposed elements. The term was first coined in New Zealand in 2004 [ 1 ] and gained in usage through 2005. [ 2 ]
Artists were challenged to create one-of-a-kind pieces of art using only recycled materials.
A specific subgenre of found objects is known as trash art or junk art. [19] These works primarily comprise components that have been discarded. Often they come quite literally from the trash. One example of trash art is trashion, fashion made from trash. Marina DeBris takes trash from the beach and creates dresses, vests, and other clothes ...