Last Friday, we went to London for the research of our second project — sustainable fashion in the future. A number of thought-provoking pictures have been taken and I will show you all of them and the reason why I inspired by those pictures.
Along the road to London on the train, the view of these living and commercial spaces transformed by containers looks stunning for the reason that I was extremely pleased with the reuse way of “buildings”.
Apparently, the wasted steel containers would do no harm to the environment, and also they are not just “crap” but been given values. What’s more, these containers are movable in some. extent, so people don’t have to cut down the trees around there to gain more space for the constructions.
After we arrived in London, we straitly went to the National Gallery for the exhibitions. There’s a large park which contains numerous trees, green grass and lively animals such as squirrels and pigeons near the gallery, not to mention the refreshing air that we took every minutes in there. This is probably as a result of the citizens who paid highly attention to the eco-friendly system.
Joseph Beuys Lightning with Stag in its Glare
Those large installations are from German artists Joseph Beuys, when he returned to working with stone, wood and bronze. All works address themes of finality and death, but also ideas of regeneration through nature.
In my opinion, I was delighted to see the materials that Joseph Beuys chose to use for those installations, which are quite sustainable in some extent. For example, wood and logs are from the nature and it can decay in the soil without any damage to the surface soil. Steel, as well as plastics, grass, and papers ca be recycled and reused.
As I mentioned above, there’s also some masterpieces focusing on the plastics and papers. My favourite one is the first one for the reason that it was made by old newspapers. The newspapers had been settled for many layers, one covered above another and the hole has been on the different layers as you can see, then the newspapers was painted in black and white. To be honest, I didn’t recognised the paper-made artwork, as it looks extremely thick, and I can feel the space between the layers which is vivid and vibrant for me.
The last picture shows that the artists put a number of craps namely as plastic bags, clothes and spring-mattress on a dying tree. It seems like they are companying each other as they are all abandoned and useless for most of the people, and them looks surprisingly in harmony as they were doomed to be together. In the past, I would have felt those things are unnecessary likes other people, but this time I realised there’s nothing useless at all, every detail in our daily life could be sustainable and represent for beauty.
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