"The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone."
Welcome to Art for a Sustainable World Hello and a warm welcome, this is "Art For A Sustainable World", a site that expresses an artistic viewpoint to some very interesting visions of a saner, safer and exciting new world.
I hope you find the artwork here thought provoking and inspires you to create and consider an open approach to helping the current world dilemmas we're facing. Many of the materials I use as canvasses are "thrown away", "consumer waste". As I learned how little I actually knew, and the effect of this waste has on our environment, I set about using it as an example to show just how unthinking, we as a species have become, in our quest to own and have more & more consumables........ A big thank you goes to Ben Murray for helping in such a big way for putting this site together, and Christie for some great photos of Jessie May and Joey with me, reminding me of how children are so much, to use the words Christie used, "in the moment". |
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The following poem was written by Christine Rbe Thindi in early March 2014, and is being turned into a global collaborative video.
Thanks to Christine for such a powerful, inspirational and positive piece of writing, and the 100 or so people involved, in 50 countries, for making the video.
There is a Way (to make this world a great place for all)
Financial troubles everywhere
give you no time to be aware
of what it is that causes it
and it all seems so legit
indoctrinations keep you caught
in a state of fearful thought
Money makes the world go round
It's what keeps the food abound
keeps us clothed and in a home
without it, streets we'd have to roam
sleep on the pavement, starve to death
feel misery till our last breath
We bear the drudgery we hate
because we think that it's our fate
We have to keep a job or two
enough banknotes will see us through
will pay the taxes and the bills
bliss awaits beyond the hills
make more money to get by
but guess what? It's all a lie!
We could feed 12 billion souls
if markets didn't block the flow
Money causes suffering
destroys your soul and everything
the planet is about to die
economic growth has to be high
exploitation is a must
if profits are not to go bust
What is the use if very soon
Earth will look like its own moon
your children will not have a future
just because your lifestyle suits ya
but look at it, does it make you happy?
Or do you feel stressed and rather crappy?
Our offspring raised by institutions
no time and strength for resolutions
families are ripped apart
and so is everybody's heart
Suppressing who we really are
spreads depression near and far
You are a slave to this whole thing
full of worry and suffering
Half the world has it even worse
they always have an empty purse
But did you know, there's a better way
where no one can be led astray
where everyone on planet Earth
lives healthy, happy right from birth
no stress, no force, no crime, no war
where all our spirits are free to soar
Technology will do the jobs
robots won't turn into mobs
most work's already automated
so why not call the rest outdated?
Let's just end the reign of money
and we're not trying to be funny
Without it we will all be wealthy
happy, free and very healthy
Follow our passions every day
with no pressure of earning pay
Saving the planet in the process
that is what is called REAL progress
All we need to set us free
is a Resource-Based Economy!
Thanks to Christine for such a powerful, inspirational and positive piece of writing, and the 100 or so people involved, in 50 countries, for making the video.
There is a Way (to make this world a great place for all)
Financial troubles everywhere
give you no time to be aware
of what it is that causes it
and it all seems so legit
indoctrinations keep you caught
in a state of fearful thought
Money makes the world go round
It's what keeps the food abound
keeps us clothed and in a home
without it, streets we'd have to roam
sleep on the pavement, starve to death
feel misery till our last breath
We bear the drudgery we hate
because we think that it's our fate
We have to keep a job or two
enough banknotes will see us through
will pay the taxes and the bills
bliss awaits beyond the hills
make more money to get by
but guess what? It's all a lie!
We could feed 12 billion souls
if markets didn't block the flow
Money causes suffering
destroys your soul and everything
the planet is about to die
economic growth has to be high
exploitation is a must
if profits are not to go bust
What is the use if very soon
Earth will look like its own moon
your children will not have a future
just because your lifestyle suits ya
but look at it, does it make you happy?
Or do you feel stressed and rather crappy?
Our offspring raised by institutions
no time and strength for resolutions
families are ripped apart
and so is everybody's heart
Suppressing who we really are
spreads depression near and far
You are a slave to this whole thing
full of worry and suffering
Half the world has it even worse
they always have an empty purse
But did you know, there's a better way
where no one can be led astray
where everyone on planet Earth
lives healthy, happy right from birth
no stress, no force, no crime, no war
where all our spirits are free to soar
Technology will do the jobs
robots won't turn into mobs
most work's already automated
so why not call the rest outdated?
Let's just end the reign of money
and we're not trying to be funny
Without it we will all be wealthy
happy, free and very healthy
Follow our passions every day
with no pressure of earning pay
Saving the planet in the process
that is what is called REAL progress
All we need to set us free
is a Resource-Based Economy!
My Mission......
My mission, simply put, is to find good homes for my art work. I'm aiming to spread awareness of our social and economic issues by artistically creating a talking point with using thrown away objects.
Whether the message be on an old T.V, mobile phone, plastic toy or anything for that matter, the message is clear.......we can begin to embrace a positive movement of change whatever our age,sex,race,nation or belief system.
How would you feel if you had a piece of art that expressed a deeper understanding of our current world problems and solutions? Enabling you to help spread positive ideas and invite others to investigate our possible future further.
Whether the message be on an old T.V, mobile phone, plastic toy or anything for that matter, the message is clear.......we can begin to embrace a positive movement of change whatever our age,sex,race,nation or belief system.
How would you feel if you had a piece of art that expressed a deeper understanding of our current world problems and solutions? Enabling you to help spread positive ideas and invite others to investigate our possible future further.
Thinking outside "the box"Televisions are probably one of the biggest examples we have of our continuous consumption of the earth's finite resources, constant advertising imploring us to "buy this or that product". As David Attenborough once said " Anyone who believes in infinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist!" I have painted on maNy things and I currently focus most of my attention on painting old discarded tv's and computer monitors.
See more Art Work like this here. |
Taking action, with coloursHaving been introduced to the ideas of planned and perceived obsolescence and the inefficient waste of our resources and learning about sustainability, I have been doing what I can, through art, to introduce others to these ideas and the people and organisations (far more knowledgeable and practical than I) behind them, some of whom you will find links to on this site.
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