Sculptures Made from Recycled Human Ashes
October 18, 2010
Wieki Somers’s exhibition ‘Consume or Conserve’ pushes the boundaries of recycling by putting human remains to a new use.
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Seven Monuments Made from Hundreds of Recycled Bicycles
October 14, 2010
What’s greener than cycling? Recycling old bikes into amazing new structures!
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Sculptures Made from Recycled Human Blood
October 13, 2010
Is using human blood for a sculpture the ultimate in recycling or is it going too far? In an online first, view all of Marc Quinn’s “Self” blood sculptures in one place.
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Portraits Created Out of Thousands of Staples
October 12, 2010
Artist Rob O’Brien uses ordinary staples to create masterful artworks that give new meaning to this everyday item.
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The Curative Powers of Ukraine’s Repurposed Salt Mine
October 12, 2010
A repurposed salt mine in the Ukraine, close to the Romanian border and 300 m below the surface, offers asthma and allergy sufferers what allopathic medicine cannot: relief.
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Four Ways to Reuse This Halloween
October 7, 2010
Halloween decorations, costumes and candy can be expensive and wasteful. Find out how you can cut back using what you probably already have.
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Bone China Made from Recycled Human Remains
October 6, 2010
Charles Krafft’s Villa Delirium Delft Works produces porcelain family memorabilia from human ashes. His motto? “Ashes to ashes, dust to delft… “
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Waste-Free, Money-Saving Halloween Inspirations
October 5, 2010
You can still celebrate Halloween with the best of them while reusing and conserving. Here are some spooky suggestions!
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‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Made from Recycled Tires
September 22, 2010
Brett Graham is an internationally acclaimed sculptor from New Zealand who uses his Maori heritage to undermine western stereotypes about indigenous people.
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Pop Icons Created from Toast
September 21, 2010
New Zealand-based artist Maurice Bennett converts ordinary slices of toast into art.