Claudia Borgna is an installation and performance artist whose main medium is recycled plastic bags. Her work is a comment on the way we live and how it affects the environment, but she adds “… it’s a non-judgmental comment, since I haven’t really resolved for myself, and never will, its contradictory nature of beauty and danger.”

I discovered Claudia from a photo in the McColl Center artist’s section of Mitchell Kearney’s website.

Sangomas are African shamans. This photo of five sangomas was shot by Andy Rabagliati at a ceremony in Zululand. Click on ze pic and notice the crushed cans around their ankles . . .

I’ll be in Copenhagen Saturday December 12 to Wednesday the 16th… fun!

George Sabra is at it again. You may remember his piece matrix – this new one’s called fetus of the beast and is on display at Austin city hall. The piece is made from a chunk of tree roots he found in Austin lake and recycled computer parts.

I’ll be wearing my plastic polar bear mask in the streets of Copenhagen on December 12th. Check out Climate Justice Action for more on that subject.

Rolando Politi did it again…

In his own words:

Dearest Yanbukis from all over but especially the ones outside NYC and the nomads on the road who could not be present at the closing of this cycle of WASTE…..

It was a time to rejoice and celebrate the END OF THIS DECADE OF WASTE…..the “zeros”  as we look forward to a more exciting although faster paced and unpredictable decade, the “teens”.

ANUKI, master of prophecies was correct at the dawn of the 21st century predicting unprecedented destruction and waste thru the decade. Now he predicts the renaissance of the “teens” whereby we will witness not one not two but three suns (green) the “teen” dawns will sparkle over water at the rise of three green suns marking the beginning of each new day…

Possibly not a metaphor for a greener world but a real possibility as MOTHER NATURE has a way of inventing its own reality, a reality which humans have no way of logically getting to it…

HAPPY CONTINUING SUMMER

Recycle  and  Pray

See-through trash containers? Hell yeah! Here’s Danish artist Tue Greenfort showing off his stealth installation at Frieze 2008. Read all about it on RSA’s Arts and Ecology website - and while you’re there, check out Steinbrener/Dempf’s “Trouble in Paradise”, below. Now that’s some visible trash!

I contribute occasional blog posts to an upcycling portal called re-imagining our waste. Here’s a little something from Aerin Dunford, another contributor. It’s a purse she made from can pull-tabs saved for her by family and friends. I’m posting it because I like Aerin’s emphasis on upcycling as personal creativity as opposed to mass-marketing. As in “need something? Want something? Try and make it before you try and buy it.” And by the way, have you fondled your stuff lately?

BIG WOW!

In the lineage of the Floating Neutrinos and Spiral Island, The Swimming Cities of Serenissima are set to hit the Venice Biennale this year in trashy style. Thanx to Keith Womack for the tip.

Rick Haithcox made this image from a photo he took at the Gaston County dump (NC). Check out the deer - what’s that doing there? Did it have Chronic Wasting Disease? Anyway, the world’s in a sorry state if we’ve got dead deer in landfills. And don’t even get me started on people! Violence is the biggest disgrace, but the fact that there are homeless people anywhere in “the first world” is right up there with it as the shame of shames.

Hell, anywhere in the entire world, for that matter.