Surprise-surprise!
Hello,
I know. It’s been a while since I last posted here. In the last few months, I have been spending time creating and uploading new artwork on my online shop as well as creating content for social media. And on top of that I have had quite a few events and am in the search for new places to exhibit my work in the coming months. I’ll try to update you from here at least once a month, hopefully.
Today I’m going to talk a bit about the ways in which House of Frisson contributes to minimising carbon footprint and waste materials in landfills.
By upcycling and repurposing pre-existing objects House of Frisson strives to reduce waste and prolong the life of materials that would otherwise end up in landfill.
We are all about giving a second life to those unappealing or unwanted objects that people usually discard, give away to charity shops or don’t know what to do with.
We love them! They are just like a blank canvas waiting for House of Frisson’s collage designs to spice them up.
Even when the objects are cracked or broken there is always a way to fix them so that they can also be upcycled into something new and exciting.
There’s already too much waste material out there polluting our natural environment. If we can minimise it everyone will certainly benefit.
I was once offered some broken plates by a friend who asked me if they could be of any use. I accepted them, not knowing what I could do, if they could be fixed and used in my artwork but I decided to challenge myself.
It was then that I came up with this technique of gluing together the broken pieces and then, to cover up the wounds, gluing small scraps of paper on the surface to form a colourful pattern on the back of the plate.
I do the same to cracked ceramic or glass vases, by filling in the cracks and then painting and applying collage to the surface to cover up the junctions.
These scraps of paper incorporated in the designs (on the front or back of the objects) are small cut outs from the main images used in the designs. They are those awkward pieces that are usually thrown in the bin. I now save them all! I have been using those on the back of the plates, even on those plates that were not broken, as a way of adding an extra touch to the artwork.
No such a thing as waste where there's creativity and conscious mind.
The front
They don't look like they were broken to pieces, do they? :-)
I'd love to hear from you in the comment area bellow.
Thank you.
Lov&frisson,
Luciano R. x