Video: Folk motives of "green" creativity in Crete
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Plastic Is one of nature's killers. It is produced on a huge scale all over the world, and the decay time of this material is very long. Here on Crete found an unusual way to deal with this debris. The schools there turn him into works of art … Moreover, with a national flavor.
The public initiative Kollektivemind, created to try to change the world for the better through the collective efforts of caring people, conducted an unusual creative experiment called Argallios on the Greek island of Crete. She invited school workers, students and their parents to become creators of works of art themselves, and at the same time a clean neighborhood.
The first step in this experiment involves collecting empty plastic bottles from around schools. Subsequently, this container is washed, dried and painted in different colors with environmentally friendly paints.
Well, the last stage of Argallios is to create paintings from these bottles right in the fences that fence the schools. The brightly colored container is simply tucked in a special order into the holes of the mesh from which this fence is made. It turns out very colorful and pretty.
Moreover, the patterns in which the painted bottles are lined up are very reminiscent of traditional Cretan embroidery - the traditional art of the island that has survived to this day.
Kollektivemind's Argallios initiative has several goals. The first is the desire to clear the school grounds of waste hazardous to nature. The second is to make Cretan schools and their surroundings more beautiful, vibrant and unusual (compare with the much more pretentious, but also more nondescript Fragile plastic installation in a Montreal shopping center).
The third is to teach children and adults to be responsible to nature and themselves, to make them understand the consequences of their actions. Well, the fourth goal is to unleash the creative potential of even people who have never been involved in the arts.
Of course, all the garbage accumulated on the island of Crete cannot be disposed of in this way. But it is much more important in this matter to draw public attention to the problem, to give it ground for reflection on this burning, insanely topical topic.
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