Video: Pop culture icons made from trash. Sustainable project Makaon
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
One of the main sources of information about the daily life of people who lived in past centuries, which are used by archaeologists, is the ancient landfills. Only during their excavations can one understand how an ordinary person lived in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and other states sunk into oblivion. A Japanese artist Makaon decided to simplify the task for the historians of the future. He creates out of the trash works of art in which it shows important for our generation pop culture symbols.
Artists have long mastered rubbish as a material for their own work. For example, someone makes miniature figures of bugs and spiders from the waste of human activity, someone makes huge snails crawling along the pavement, and someone makes a whole house!
But the Japanese artist Makaon decided to create symbols from garbage for several generations at once, who lived in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He makes figurines of famous Western pop culture characters - Darth Vader, Bambi, Smurfs, Batman, Mario the plumber, and many other characters in feature films and cartoons.
Makaon searches the city streets for material for his works. Literally everything he could find is used - paper, cardboard, cans, plastic bags and much more. The artist sorts the finds by color and size, so that later it is easy to find out which of all this to use when creating one or another new figurine.
With his work like this, Makaon tries to demonstrate to people the relationship between environmental pollution and the modern culture of overconsumption, in which pop culture has a significant motivating role.
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