Art Creation for Upcycling

Notice-Forest (http://yuken.brandonstore.com/projects-1/notice-forest)

Last Saturday, I went to Saatchi Gallery with my friend for research. I found a beautiful art creation. The artist is Yuken Teruya, New York based artist. He uses tiny scissors to cut intricate tree shapes into high-end designer store bags. 

Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya Golden Arch Parkway McDonald's (Japanese)

2005

paper, glue

9 x 15.3 x 26.5 cm

Yuken explains, "I cut out one side of disposable paper bags. Then I assemble a tree from the cut-out-part, stand each tree in the same bag that it came from. When you see it under the natural light, the delicate tree shows inside a paper bag, shows us the strength and the proof of existence of living tree." 

( Yuken Teruya, Notice - Forest)

I thought his beautiful creations are kind of upcycling products, because the main material of

his creation is paper bags which we can get at shopping, and usually people discard them.

He makes the value of ordinary paper bags increase. That could be said "upcycling".

Yuken Teruya
LVMH - Marc Jacobs

2005

paper, glue

15 x 20 x 30.3 cm

References
・Teruya. Y, (2005) Notice - Forest . [Internet]. Available from :<http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/projects-1/notice-forest>  [Accessed 18 October 2013].