Cardboard box bowl 1
Using strips off a cardboard box dipped into my bush juice and moulded into a bowl.
After gluing main pieces together I wove fencing wire into side panels and around the top of the bowl.
Another piece in my 100% recycled fine art.
The inside pieces of card board have been bush juice printed and stripped off their corrugated and back sections to create a creative layer within the bowl.
21.5cm diameter x 11.5 cm high
Lets reflect on the Jarrah forest here in Western Australia before the British sailing ships first brought the European settlers to the Western Australian shores back in 1827. Lets then consider these very ancient and mature environments that surrounded and thrived within the Jarrah forest prior to European settlements. Then consider the impact on the people and the unique animal and insect kingdoms dependent on that Jarrah forest.
So many changes in such a short period of time are juxtaposition to how long these people and forests and animals and insects and environments had been there undisturbed.
All of these resent changes taking place within a very short time frame. The evolution and the growth of these forests and all that surrounded and inhabited their environs had been there for a very very long period of time. The history of the forests evolution is not really understood even today with the exception of a few scientists researching its diverse elements which is then mirrored within the understanding of another small community of scientists trying to grasp the real time frame to fix the ancient stone age aboriginal communities which by that time had spread across the entire vast continent of Australia.
All of my art this year has been knitted and deeply rooted within my connection and love of this forest. The cardboard boxes that surround so much of all consumed products are discarded and thrown into garbage bins with no understanding or questioning of where the material came from to create them.
Some years ago here in Western Australia the government authorise were allowing mature ancient Jarrah trees to be wood chipped, shipped to Japan and turned into cardboard boxes that then were sent back on other ships now containing plastic toys for children and who knows what else.
An entire generation grew up quite content here in Western Australia to buy these plastic trinkets and then through the cardboard boxes into the garbage without a flicker of thought on where and what went into their creation.
I am very pleased to say I have finally found a way to begin to honour my beloved forests sacrifices through turning discarded cardboard boxes into fine art pieces honouring my beloved jarrah forest.
The use of wire to hold the bowl together is a juxtaposition in its self. The delicate and fragile tree pulp that was transformed into the cardboard box is then designed to be very strong. This juxtaposition exists within the very Jarrah forest its self. The trees grow a very hard timber and grow out of some of the most unfertile soils on the planet and grow out of a semi desert environment. Everything about the native vegetation that grows in Australia has this strength and delicate juxtaposition at its very foundation.
The whole idea of cardboard bound with strong wire brings a smile to my heart.
Cardboard box bowl 1
Using strips off a cardboard box dipped into my bush juice and moulded into a bowl.
After gluing main pieces together I wove fencing wire into side panels and around the top of the bowl.
Another piece in my 100% recycled fine art.
The inside pieces of card board have been bush juice printed and stripped off their corrugated and back sections to create a creative layer within the bowl.
21.5cm diameter x 11.5 cm high
Lets reflect on the Jarrah forest here in Western Australia before the British sailing ships first brought the European settlers to the Western Australian shores back in 1827. Lets then consider these very ancient and mature environments that surrounded and thrived within the Jarrah forest prior to European settlements. Then consider the impact on the people and the unique animal and insect kingdoms dependent on that Jarrah forest.
So many changes in such a short period of time are juxtaposition to how long these people and forests and animals and insects and environments had been there undisturbed.
All of these resent changes taking place within a very short time frame. The evolution and the growth of these forests and all that surrounded and inhabited their environs had been there for a very very long period of time. The history of the forests evolution is not really understood even today with the exception of a few scientists researching its diverse elements which is then mirrored within the understanding of another small community of scientists trying to grasp the real time frame to fix the ancient stone age aboriginal communities which by that time had spread across the entire vast continent of Australia.
All of my art this year has been knitted and deeply rooted within my connection and love of this forest. The cardboard boxes that surround so much of all consumed products are discarded and thrown into garbage bins with no understanding or questioning of where the material came from to create them.
Some years ago here in Western Australia the government authorise were allowing mature ancient Jarrah trees to be wood chipped, shipped to Japan and turned into cardboard boxes that then were sent back on other ships now containing plastic toys for children and who knows what else.
An entire generation grew up quite content here in Western Australia to buy these plastic trinkets and then through the cardboard boxes into the garbage without a flicker of thought on where and what went into their creation.
I am very pleased to say I have finally found a way to begin to honour my beloved forests sacrifices through turning discarded cardboard boxes into fine art pieces honouring my beloved jarrah forest.
The use of wire to hold the bowl together is a juxtaposition in its self. The delicate and fragile tree pulp that was transformed into the cardboard box is then designed to be very strong. This juxtaposition exists within the very Jarrah forest its self. The trees grow a very hard timber and grow out of some of the most unfertile soils on the planet and grow out of a semi desert environment. Everything about the native vegetation that grows in Australia has this strength and delicate juxtaposition at its very foundation.
The whole idea of cardboard bound with strong wire brings a smile to my heart.