We promote artwork as a champion of sustainability.
Repurposing Waste Into Art
Since March of 2021, we’ve focused on turning a multitude of energy waste sources into new, functional art pieces. We’ve reused and repurposed solar panels, coal byproducts, carbon dioxide emissions, and various plastics. We’ve taken discarded picture books, old photos, clothing and accessories and sorted and shaped them into new pieces of artwork to be sold and displayed as new art.
Growing Discourse
Moving visual art towards a circular economy is a creative challenge that requires collaboration and some very unique ideas. The size and diversity of the network of people working on circular artwork needs to increase, enabling the ideas to travel to new places and creating wider understanding. Broadening of the conversation has revealed more connection points and buyers across our global economy.
Just Sold!
Kate Emond of Sheridan, WY created this incredibly unique piece by breaking the end-of-life solar panel glass in half, grouting with unsanded grout, applying epoxy, and then adding alcohol ink and spray paint. She finished the piece with more epoxy and hand-printed metallic 3D pen filament designs.
The finished piece measures approximately 60”x20”.
I believe that as long as humans can disrupt nature but not destroy it, we can learn to help the organisms in it adapt to the changes upon us and in the future. The solar panel that I recreated shows that when you take something to the absolute breaking point and then start to rebuild it, it might just turn into something new and beautiful.
Artist Kate Emond
