Wednesday

Reduce Reuse Recycle Replenish ART

Hello Duke and Grey Owl,


It looks like you have taken action on water conservation, we have too!  Have you seen ‘Gyre’ by artist Christ Jordan?  It is based on the famous Japanese painting ‘The Wave off Kanagawa'.  His piece is made of over 2.4 million pieces of plastic garbage, the estimated number of pieces of garbage that end up in the ocean each hour!  We couldn't believe this!
Inspired by ‘Gyre’ and other examples of recycled item art, the grade ones and twos created pieces to promote environmental awareness and water conservation made entirely of previously used items.  Their environmental messages are everything from 'save the fish', 'don't litter', to 'save the people'!
They did a wonderful job working as both artists and environmentalists!


3 comments:

  1. Wow! Great pictures!

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  2. Wow, Bala, Grey Owl and Duke -
    This blog and all of the great thinking and experimentation and work you have done over the past month is amazing. Your student teachers are colleagues of mine, and they showed your work in our Environmental and Sustainability Education course. Very impressive.

    I look forward to checking in on the blog and seeing what fabulous new things you are doing, to explore and protect our environment.

    You studentsforenvironment are an inspiration!

    Thanks so much,

    Jen Mactaggart
    (A student/teacher at OISE/UofT)

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