According to Gilmour, the idea of working with cardboard and recycled materials is tied to his work with educational projects. “Cardboard is cheap and easy to find, and using simple tools and techniques it is possible to make almost anything,” he explains on his website. “I love the challenge of working with other people to help them realize their ideas.”

The finished works create a remarkable effect where the viewer tries to reconcile the solid physical presence of well-known objects with a material that most people think of as light, weak, and only meant to be used as a container and then thrown away. But his work can also be seen as a reflection on consumerism and materialism, and as a metaphor for transience and impermanence.

“One of the reasons I am attracted by cardboard is that, although it can be an expensive material, people fail to notice it and just throw it away when buying an object, often slightly irritated at the thought of having to dispose of it,” writes Gilmour. “There is a widespread idea of having to leave our mark, of expressing our personality by buying this or that object that will best convey our originality. Almost as if the consumer society had transformed even our personalities into something you can buy.”

Take a look at some of his thought-provoking work in the gallery below:

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“I am an artist who is painting on everything that I can find outside, especially old unique and forgotten things,” Miss Redreaming wrote on Bored Panda. “I give worth and care for the things which are not needed anymore. I think it is important to remind us that we all are important and worth, no matter how old, how rich, or how beautiful we are…”

Scroll down and check out her hand-painted and recycled pieces of art below.

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“It is a pleasure for me that I can help to transform an item that was thrown and is useless giving it the opportunity to exist in a new shape, in a new form as if I continued its existence in an already artistic expression”, Artūras says.

What do you think about his work?

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According to Gilmour, the idea of working with cardboard and recycled materials is tied to his work with educational projects. “Cardboard is cheap and easy to find, and using simple tools and techniques it is possible to make almost anything,” he explains on his website. “I love the challenge of working with other people to help them realize their ideas.”

The finished works create a remarkable effect where the viewer tries to reconcile the solid physical presence of well-known objects with a material that most people think of as light, weak, and only meant to be used as a container and then thrown away. But his work can also be seen as a reflection on consumerism and materialism, and as a metaphor for transience and impermanence.

“One of the reasons I am attracted by cardboard is that, although it can be an expensive material, people fail to notice it and just throw it away when buying an object, often slightly irritated at the thought of having to dispose of it,” writes Gilmour. “There is a widespread idea of having to leave our mark, of expressing our personality by buying this or that object that will best convey our originality. Almost as if the consumer society had transformed even our personalities into something you can buy.”

Take a look at some of his thought-provoking work in the gallery below:

The post Chris Gilmour Makes Realistic Sculptures Out of Cardboard appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I am an artist who is painting on everything that I can find outside, especially old unique and forgotten things,” Miss Redreaming wrote on Bored Panda. “I give worth and care for the things which are not needed anymore. I think it is important to remind us that we all are important and worth, no matter how old, how rich, or how beautiful we are…”

Scroll down and check out her hand-painted and recycled pieces of art below.

The post Artist Recycles Old Stuff By Painting On Them appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“It is a pleasure for me that I can help to transform an item that was thrown and is useless giving it the opportunity to exist in a new shape, in a new form as if I continued its existence in an already artistic expression”, Artūras says.

What do you think about his work?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1162986917166101&set=a.1162986273832832.1073741876.100003644117203&type=3&theater

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