Creating Art out of Plastic Debris

If you look around, there are many creative and artistic ways to approach recycling. One which the Electrolux 'Vac form The Sea' team saw was  artist Steve McPherson. For over 15 years Steve has been collecting objects from beaches of the North Kent Coast of the UK, and turning them into pieces of art. It started when he was a teenager running around the beaches with his friends looking for objects to burn. But as he grew older he started collecting pieces turning them in to art and to use in his diaries and journals.

In his most recent work, Steve combines found objects from his local coast, with a summary text that gives the object a potential identity and history. He sees the fact that the objects are lost and then found, fills them with a story and an interconnectedness. But he likes the fact that he doesn’t know the truth to why they are lost.

- The truth of these objects now becomes a matter for questioning and is itself filled with countless possible beautiful alternatives, Steve says.

Source: Electrolux - Vac from The Sea Campaign Blog

Read more about the Electrolux 'Vac From The Sea' campaign here.

Electrolux Turns Ocean Garbage Into New Vacuums video.

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Glad to see that someone is doing some amazing things out of recycled plastic. It is so cool!