Re-use Re-view Re-think
In September 2021 Oxfordshire had a Big Green Week festival and a group of Magdalen Road Studio artists got together to share and create images and other art work that inspires people to care for the planet at the Fusion Arts Centre in East Oxford. Posted on this webpage is a selection from Lissart's contribution to the exhibition. Motivated to communicate that we humans are part of nature, these pieces are intended to guide the viewer/participant’s attention to beauty in the natural world, even in decay or metamorphosis.
Re-using
Making art with material that has had another function – either within an artwork or other purpose – draws attention to the issue of waste and preciousness of resources: Bottle under The Bridge: re-uses turquoise & gold acrylic on paper that was part of The Bridge exhibition and a found plastic bottle. Fire Fabric: re-uses old fabric, a photo and eco-paper. |
Re-viewing (below)
‘Re-viewing’ was participatory! People were encouraged to pick things up, look at them from different angles, draw or photograph what they did. Two examples below: What's your framing? people were invited to undo the frame and reposition it in various ways; and How does it feel? which provided a box of shells etc. for touching, taking, drawing …
‘Re-viewing’ was participatory! People were encouraged to pick things up, look at them from different angles, draw or photograph what they did. Two examples below: What's your framing? people were invited to undo the frame and reposition it in various ways; and How does it feel? which provided a box of shells etc. for touching, taking, drawing …
Re-thinking (below)
These three pieces are intended as prompts for reflection. ‘Oceans connect’ uses a Celtic knot motif to represent the connected blue spaces of our planet. ‘Reject or reclaim’ invites the viewer to see beauty in the rejected and decayed iron. ‘True gold’ is a representation of the ‘golden ratio’ constructed using a circle, its inscribed equilateral triangle with a ray through the midpoints of two of the triangle’s sides; the proof that the constructed rectangle is ‘golden’ uses similar triangles leading to the quadratic equation that defines the golden ratio in mathematical terms.
These three pieces are intended as prompts for reflection. ‘Oceans connect’ uses a Celtic knot motif to represent the connected blue spaces of our planet. ‘Reject or reclaim’ invites the viewer to see beauty in the rejected and decayed iron. ‘True gold’ is a representation of the ‘golden ratio’ constructed using a circle, its inscribed equilateral triangle with a ray through the midpoints of two of the triangle’s sides; the proof that the constructed rectangle is ‘golden’ uses similar triangles leading to the quadratic equation that defines the golden ratio in mathematical terms.