Video: Pure Art from Used Subway Cards by Thomas McKean
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A plastic card for a trip to the subway. It would seem that there could be something in it that would interest the artist? But Thomas McKean got interested. And makes of such sculpture cards, installations and mosaics, which, by the way, helps a lot to his hometown of New York.
After all, every year in New York, people throw away about 170 million plastic metro cards. Moreover, most of them do not end up in trash cans, but are scattered around stations and subway crossings, along the streets of the city. So the wipers and Thomas McKean have to collect them.
The first ones are collected in order to be thrown away, and McKean - in order to turn used, unnecessary plastic cards into works of art. After all, photographer Michael Wolf sees beauty in passengers who find themselves in a stampede in the Tokyo Metro. And Thomas McKean, in turn, sees beauty in the cards thrown away by subway passengers in New York.
Moreover, in his work, he is not limited to methods, styles and types of creativity. He cuts these plastic metro cards, bends them, breaks, tears, glues. Thomas McKean groups them by color, by shade. And all this in order to turn what other people perceive as unnecessary rubbish into real works of art. After all, Thomas McKean creates paintings, sculptures and even installations from outdated cards - there is no limit to his imagination!
He himself declares that the main message of his work is that he wants to show people that the smallest, mundane and seemingly unnecessary things still deserve our attention. And New York City deserves to be clean. After all, almost two million dollars are spent annually from his budget only on the collection and disposal of used plastic cards for travel on the subway.
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