Friend: What’s this? Kate: Someone hung them from the knob of my back door yesterday. Friend: Someone left you a bunch of Yellow Book bags? Kate: Yeah. Friend: Do you not find it odd that[…]
Tag: ecoart
Contemplating Death and Consumer Guilt
Bauxite is an aluminium ore and the world’s main source of aluminium. Many years ago while I was a guest in Guyana, locals made sure to make me aware of a bauxite mine owned by[…]
Green Holiday Craft Making
The Green Team members created upcycled holiday crafts during their last meeting of 2013. We made pointsettia ornaments from aluminium cans and Christmas trees from magazines.
The Shrine
Sometime ago, I started working on what I am currently calling ‘The Shrine’. I am viewing this body of work as a my attempt to better understand various spiritual and/or religious traditions as well as[…]
Making Boxes out of Boxes
Something I haven’t confessed on this blog until now is that I have a cardboard pile. It pretty much consists of boxes that packaged my gifts from Christmases prior. I kept all this cardboard with[…]
Baskets and Bags
I have not posted in some time. Mostly out of shame. I made a basket from magazine paper. It’s pretty pathetic. I used a plaited weave technique that I obviously have not mastered. This was[…]
225 Plastic Bags!
I made real progress eliminating my plastic bag stash. In fact with the remaining plastic bags I had, I made six balls of plarn. I figured I’d spend some time crocheting some fabulous thing out[…]
936 Soda Tabs
I maintain yet another small heap that I have not discussed on this web site until just now. I stash away the soda tabs like a squirrel stashes away acorns. I don’t mind talking about[…]
Still attacking the plastic bags
Last week, I largely left my piles untouched. I focused much of my artistic time on a collaborative journal project with seven other members of the St. Louis chapter of the Womans Caucus for Art.[…]
Master of the Trash Piles
I am so satisfied with myself this week. I have indeed reduced piles. Yeah me. First, I eliminated most of my soda bottle pile. I used the sides of every soda bottle I had, but[…]