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These were the first designs i created for this installation. Since the original exhibition many more series have been designed and worn by people all over the UK. The first set of designs were printed onto t-shirts, jumpers and aprons and sold at glastonbury from a washing line by the greenpeace showers. Each t-shirt contained a label explaining the intention of the project it read as follows; This t-shirt is part of a nationwide art exhibition. Each garment displays its own individual set of instructions for learning a skill. The idea is that the t-shirts will be worn in all different places and read by as many people as possible. Through this de-centralised teaching, skills will not be lost or forgotten and as a nation we can re-claim our independance from over consumption. So show off your t-shirt and skill up those around you. (All garments originally re-claimed from charity shops)
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These are some of a series of designs for sustainable convenience and luxury inventions, the drawings are a comment on the society that would be interested in buying them. The inventions are intentionally facetious and draw attention to companies that use greenwash by advertising their products as "eco-friendly" when really they are wasteful and unnecessary. Alongside research into renewable energy and technologies public consumptive attitudes must be changed.
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The tree house was an example of one of the ridiculous sustainable devices. It was a structure made entirely of re-claimed materials, from the bolts and nuts, to the timber, the plastic and ties to the stones and bricks that lined its foundations. All of these were either found or donated to make an environment that would protect a maple tree.
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How many oranges does it take to change a light bulb? How many oranges will it take to change the world? Even if renewable energy became globalized, there would still be too much waste because of today's consumerist culture. We would have solar powered sun beds and turbine activated leaf blowers. Unnecessary, ironic items like this one...an orange juice powered environment for growing oranges. Even if a situation arose where oranges could not be grown outside and had to be reproduced in a simulated environment, even then the demonstration shows that more oranges are used than can be grown. Even a seemingly perfect, cyclical, sustainable system is useless if attitudes to waste are not altered.
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