ecoart – Kate Moore-Freeman

Yellow Book Bags and Hats of the 1930s

March 13, 2017March 13, 2017 moorekatherinePlastic Bag Art

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[…]

Contemplating Death and Consumer Guilt

February 12, 2016October 4, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

December 12, 2013October 4, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

July 1, 2012October 4, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

December 23, 2010October 3, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

November 10, 2010October 3, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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!

October 25, 2010October 3, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

October 20, 2010October 3, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

October 12, 2010October 3, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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

September 29, 2010October 3, 2016 moorekatherineUncategorized

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[…]