Recycling obsession

[avad]

I've been enjoying another little recycling obsession/experiment: cutting things up into ittybitty pieces for artmatter. here we have white junkmail paper in front.

And here we have printed cardboard:

And some lovely green and white plastics:

I've got a few more bunches of colors that I need more jars for...
been lusting after a shredder...though of course the compulsive and repetitive scissor action is strangely comforting to me...once I start it's SOOO hard to stop!
I want to cut up everything into wee squares and rectangles.mmmmmmmm

Comments

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

One of my first exposures to recycling had the concept of "High-grading". By snipping off bits of steel, for example, copper tubing was suddenly worth a lot more as scrap. Recycling an aluminum can as a pot-pipe is also high-grading. By re-using this stuff without having to pulp it/ melt it, you are high grading this stuff.

I used to try to maintain an enormous file of collage materials, until I realized I wasn't using the stuff nearly as fast as I was accumulating it. What I had subconsciously been trying to do, was 'digest' all the media being thrown at me. So I found another sucker to take it all.

[avad.livejournal.com]

so true about the digesting. I'm trying to compress it definitely....into a near powder....so much coming up for me in the realm of strata and geology....matttttter and information and time....hisssstory....I THINK I know where much of this cut up matter will be going artwise...but I have to hope that I'll do it and not just keep compulsively cutting. it's been ridiculously soothing an action.

OH and I think the term I've been seeing being used currently in many circles to mean this is upcycling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycle)?

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

matter matters!
more to follow!

[viciated-wilkin.livejournal.com]

That looks like a lot of fun.. cutting up paper/things can be very therapeutic.

i have a ton of jars at home in my art/craft shelving that have tons of small gravel, flocking, and tiny bits of charcoal that i used to use to make scenery for my brothers' warhammer 40k battles. Used to love just organizing things into jars. Made me feel good.

[avad.livejournal.com]

definitely...and the visibility with the jars is soooo aesthetically pleasing. I have most things in coffee cans because, well, I had saved a lot of coffee cans. jars I'm somewhat shorter on and I kept bringing them to the recycling bin but now will save each one. but will need these things called shelves;)

would love to see the scenery you made. I collect flocking and lil gravel and trees and random stuff for my artwork miniworlds too!

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

hee! your taste in nailpolish is awesome.

[avad.livejournal.com]

ha but of cooooourse;) it's from my vast studio collection for painting the OTHER nails...
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/avadarlene/273660548/)