Waste Not Beauty
This article in the International Herald Tribune explores one facet of using up trash to create beauty. We all know that it can be done by artists, and that article shows some artistic takes on using junk. I think the chandelier above, illustrating the show is beautiful, but so many times these things are made way too large for most private homes.
It did spur me to think, however, of the resource of all the imaginative people who come here once in a while or habitually. I hope there are more habituals than commenters, but I can only do what I do, which is turn out original content on a fairly regular basis.
This is what I propose. I would like you to photograph something you made or will make from things that would otherwise be thrown out, burned or landfilled. Send it to me and in about one month I will write an article that shows as much as possible of what you’ve done. Please be sure to entitle your email “Waste not beauty” so I will know that you are not a Romanian scammer or a Nigerian widow who wants me to accept seven million dollars. A suggestion is to establish a separate Yahoo! or Hotmail address just for responding to requests like this, so you can be in total control of who knows your real address. I don’t have a different address from decobabeone at hotmail dot com or my Yahoo! address, because my server does not offer email addresses.
I will also contribute some designs I produced through my long career as a designer. They are more about ecology than beauty, but a clean earth is beautiful, no?
Use the Hotmail address by repairing it, and send me your stuff!
5 comments January 30th, 2007
