Recycled Art

Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers series aims to display America’s relationship with consumerism. Shown is a recreation of Seurat’s masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte, done with 106,000 aluminum cans. A closeup of the work is immediately beneath it.

Yong Ho Ji makes sculptures out of old tires. He sees tires as a symbol of out-of-control consumerism.
Tim Nobel & Sue Webster met while they were studying Fine Arts in University together. Now they are best known for their art made from trash collected from the London streets, which shows an image when light is projected in front of it.