Decommissioned and ready for reuse as art.
A small sampling of painters who have been inspired by seeds...
The intricacy and diversity of the seed.
Yao Lu an emerging Chinese artist digitally reworks photos of garbage into traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
Inspiration for logs and firewood.
There must be millions of small boxes and bottles of buttons tucked away in people's dresser drawers throughout the world...
Innovative use of sustainable, recyclable cork.
Updating the Dutch/Flemish portrait with modern disposables...
Artists around the world are finding chicken wire and wire mesh an exciting medium to sculpt with.
Wire sculpture inspiration. Large scale works incorporate metal waste within the wire wrapped sculptures.
Inside a thick insulating sleeve are 50 PVC-coated easily bendable, copper wires in all different colors. Keep the PVC out of landfills by turning it into art.
Hidden from view for years, circuitry was only for function, covered with components and buried within a machine. Until artists started seeing circuitry's unique beauty.
Weaving art with willow branches.
Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, (aka Vhils) deconstructs building's walls using chisels, drills, jackhammers and small explosives to produce his large-scale wall murals. Farto exposes layers of history through the destruction of selective pieces of wall and billboard.
Recycled wood sculptures by Andries Botha, Deborah Butterfield, Heather Jansch and more...
The fibonacci spiral is a path of least resistance.
Mosaic inspiration inspired by nature.
Mr. Pavlov sets up the props, the ants happily play with them.
Although a great deal of labor to create, many of these terraces have been in use for over a thousand years.
Hugh Comstock was very familiar with Rackham's illustrations and when his wife asked him to build her a showroom for her handmade rag dolls “Otsy-Totsys”, the first time builder looked to Arthur Rackman's illustrations and built his wife a Rackham-inspired cottage called Hansel.
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Be they imagination or real, legend says that fairies will come and live in a house they like.
It's all about a man, his pink tutu and raising funds for women with breast cancer.
Uses salvaged plywood and PVC collected from the streets of São Paulo to create fabulous organic sculptures...
Unwanted toys, frames and statuary are recreated into fantastic sculptures by Kris Kuksi.
Recycled Glass Bottle Inspiration. Much of the glass we throw out is not recycled, because different glass has different melting points, and recyclers only melt the most common containers. To reuse your old glass, all you need is access to a kiln and some glass bottles.
Mimics nature's structures with the human form...hundreds of models, multiplied millions of times.
Nikon's Small World Competition is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.
Phyllis Galembo Photos. The tradition of carnivals, masquerades, masking, mime, and street parades is a long one...
"I should like, and I do it too quite instinctively, to live an example, live an example to people, paint for them a paradise that each may have, he need only grasp it."
Emmanuel Coupe Kalomiris was born 1974 in Paris, France. He has brought home numerous awards for landscape photography. Check out the photos of ice bubbles...
Wheatpaste art also known as wheatpaste graffiti, paper graffiti, paste art, paste up art... Graffiti prone areas get a refreshing redo...
Spectacular, oxymoronic photos of industrial waste. Nature turns into a deceivingly beautiful beast in the hands of corporations.
It was in 1996 when HA Schult first came up with the idea of life–sized trash people as reflections of ourselves. Since then, he has wandered the globe with his army of "Trash People." Recently they make a final stop in the North Pole...
Will they be around as long as Stonehenge...or will we excavate and recycle? Auto parts inspiration...
Glass offers an inner space and transmits light. Within each glass figure there is a smaller figure seen through the surface of the glass.
