Invitatia lui Beth (3). Ecology and Art
Acesta este al treilea articol invitat, postat ieri pe blogul lui Beth.
This is the third guest post on the Beth blog,
The world is full of plastic in all forms. Daily we collect plastic bags,
plastic bottles, packaging, etc. Plastic bags are everywhere, we get to the
supermarket or at the market, then we used to throw them in the trash. What
will happen in time with these materials that are not biodegradable? It is a
problem that will be difficult to solve. Finally, over the years, the Earth
will be "infected" with such non-biodegradable materials that will
intoxicate.
I thought recycle them and use them for artistic purposes, ie to create a
different type of material, even very interesting, which include him in my
artistic work.
Proceed as follows: pieces of plastic, cut the plastic bags, are placed in
several layers (4-5 layers depending on their thickness) between two sheets of
parchment paper and iron with ironing. It is preferable to work in an airy,
because you never know what substances may be encountered, although I have not
found it yet.
The result is a very interesting material, textures unpredictable,
depending on the nature of the plastic material and heat treatment mode.
If the plastic is too
thin, it result and some "tearing" or holes.
Then the fused plastics can be
painted with acrylic ...
Can be stitched…
Here, I sewed some leaves then
I painted with
acrylics...
Here I did a combination of plastic with textile and some gold metallic foil. I
used machine free motion to do a drawing.
Here, I mixed fused plastics with metallic foil and some stitches…
Pay
attention !!! any ironing
can affect the plastic material and can damage what you did before. After
painting or sewing is better not to
use the iron!!!
In the last photo is
the rezultat of this mistake. The sewed plastic,
as you saw in the
picture above, was ironed over and
damaged ... but I
solved fault ...
I added some
metallic foil under it .
And
finally, a CD wrapped with a
fused, painted, stitched plastic …a small painting.
