Tree sculptures grow from litter on Durban’s beachfront
Artists from KwaMashu use waste material to create interactive art in bid to get the public to start looking after the environment
To show people that littering destroys beaches and pollutes the environment, tree sculptures have been created from the cans, bottles, packets, shopping bags and six-pack plastic holders left on Durban’s beachfront. Gift Dlamini is one of six artists from KwaMashu creating art from waste tree sculptures as part of the eight-week Arts for a Healthy Lifestyle Project, which will be completed soon. In a warehouse in downtown Durban, where the artists are working, Dlamini describes his work while weaving intricate patterns with plastic shopping bags to the trunk of a wirework tree.
“Wherever I go I see garbage everywhere, on our streets and on our beaches, and I have been thinking to myself ‘how can we reduce this?’,” he says. Dlamini works predominantly as a painter, portraying how people live and doing portraits on commission. “When this project came up, it offered a way to spread the message that everyone has to stop throwing down their litter and start looking after nature. “W...
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