The “Art” of Recycling

I’ve been a big city dweller for most of my life and one thing that continues to astound me is the amount of useless paper I encounter on a daily basis.  Junk mail, free newspapers, magazines, and catalogues, cardboard packaging – the list goes on.  I wanted to do something artistic with all this paper but didn’t know what.  A quick Google search led me to the idea of making a basket/bowl out of old magazines.  A simple tutorial from Cutoutandkeep.net showed me how and the photo you see here is the result of my first try.

Some may think that, yeah, that’s kinda cool, but I have better things to spend my time on – think again – I produced this bowl while watching TV, and listening to my Japanese language course – things that I would normally be sitting still for that didn’t require a whole lot of concentration.  I actually found the repetitive nature of the process mind calming, allowing me to focus even more on the Japanese course.

Magazine Bowl by Wendy Campbell

Magazine Bowl by Wendy Campbell

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One Response to “The “Art” of Recycling”

  • jonpa Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 7:01 am

    A very bowled project.Form and colours are great.
    There was some studys done recently on people doodling while listening to a lecture etc.The results showed that concentration and retention improved . (I,m after forgeting the numbers(I should have dooled) but remember that it was quite impressive).

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