We are happy to announce that UPCYCLED WAVE in collab with Michael DiCarlo was selected to be produced at SWELL SCULPTURE FESTIVAL
CURRUMBIN BEACH, QUEENSLAND. AUSTRALIA. From 8-17th September 2023
UPCYCLED WAVE is a temporary public artwork that invites people to surf by walking along its curved corridors composed of hundred of painted aluminum cans. The people will walk along the wave and experience a visual effect created by the composition of opened cans, colors, and intercalation of layers. When the spectator looks through the several layers of open cans, a visual effect will be created that refers to the transparency of the waters, the movement of the waves, and the infinity of the ocean.
The project’s purpose is to bring awareness by upcycling aluminum cans and create a reflection on our behavior, where we are contributing to a system in which we take 5 minutes to drink a beverage and the material takes 200 years to dissolve in our home environment.
CONCEPT
Our planet is our first home, it is where we can experience all possibilities of life and build up our tiny life history inside the billions of years planet.
Humans are producing so much garbage fastly destroying the planet and its oceans. The first aluminum beverage can was manufactured by Reynolds Metals Company in 1963 and since that most of the beverages companies are using it as well as plastic bottles. The single use of those elements for only 60 years has been vastly polluting our planet home.
The companies market the single use of plastic and aluminum cans as if it is going to be recycled, but in reality, a third (over 30 billion) of our aluminum cans are not recycled. They end up in landfills, tossed along roadsides, and found worldwide in streams, rivers, the ocean, sediments, and soil.
The project’s purpose is to bring awareness by upcycling aluminum cans and create a reflection on our behavior, where we are contributing to a system in which we take 5 minutes to drink a beverage and the material takes 200 years to dissolve in our home environment.