Artist, Gwyneth Leech’s coffee cup window gallery was an interesting sight as I walked around the Madison Square Park area. Rather than throwing away coffee cups, the artist reuses them and turns them in to canvases. She calls it up-cycling- taking an item that has already served its intended purpose and creating something beautiful out of it. The phenomena has become widespread and influenced many artists, encouraging innovation within the field. This concept is also depicted through Jason Hill’s works- who transforms religious sculptures in to vibrant Die De Los Muertos figurines. The concept is simple, yet elaborate in thought as an object is reinvented in a completely different form.
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