Found or recycled items make cheap, interesting and eco-friendly materials for creating new works of art and I admire the process of turning a piece of trash into a treasure. A little bit of creativity can give an object whose non-sentient existence might even be longer than that of a human being's, a more meaningful life than if it had ended up in a rubbish dump to decompose for the rest of its history.
As seen in the video, Can City uses aluminium cans found off the streets to create a series of furniture, but what strikes me about this project is the process. Using a mobile furnace built out of recycled materials and fueled by recycled vegetable oil collected from cafes, Studio Swine melts down the aluminim cans he finds in the streets and then casts the molten metal using sand - also readily found in the streets - along with other found objects to create the pieces of furniture. I really like that from start to end, Studio Swine found ways to make use of rubbish, and could either build them up into something (like with the furnace) or break them down to their base material (like the molten aluminium). I think it shows that what something could potentially become is just as important as what it was before and it's good to think about all the different paths you could take to arrive at a creation.
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