darkTrashures: Darktrashures in Kiev, on the 4th Block Triennial of Eco Posters and Projects

The billboard with the poor kid who has cancer on it begging for 1% of your tax usually generates some basic revulsion. We could think that these campaigns are absolutely useless but still it can reach some rich people who would never ever think about these things and maybe they can help. Not all cancers are deadly and sometimes there are miracles and cancer just disappears. This is true for polluting nature as well, except for the fact that it is always deadly and we can only trust in miracles. We know that it is not hopeless if the population of the world decreases and the earth regenerates quickly, not like a person with cancer after chemotherapy and surgery. For example, in Chernobyl 25 years after the catastrophe nature is blooming and living again, even better than in other places because of the lack of human impact since then. Here we are not talking about the human life losing value, just the recovery of the balance. Since the mid-90's, many artists have dealt with the question of sustainability. The attention has increased, the subcultures started mass-producing cuter and cuter recycled design products, until now and possibly forever. There is no problem with that. Each year we count how many animal species have disappeared and look astounded at the millionth recycled wallet idea, which will finally end up in the ocean as well. This is cute but doesn't give anything more than education for an ecologically responsible life style. Well yes, we have arrived to the Pacific Garbage Patch; your tissue, tampon, cigarette butt, all your recycled and not-recycled things are waving to you. I recycle my trash to keep away from the ecological tragedies and Fukushima etc…, but does it make any sense? I have been secretly eco-dark since a couple of years ago, but it already went out of fashion as well. Eco-darkness is an attitude, not vegan, not naive and not practical urban recycling, but a kind of surrender, just like an ice-battery vest for polar bears or eating McDonald's in order to be ecologically responsable through recycling trash with your body. With this same attitude we decorate ourselves with plastic trash and wait for the next eco-catastrophe. The first Dark-Trashure jewelry brand pieces were made with this same eco-dark spirit. We use the small plastic pieces washed up on the beach at different locations or others which were found in the stomach of dead sea animals all around the world. Everyone can value the forms of nature end erosion, and these plastic pieces are about the forming power of nature. The ocean transforms these little plastic pieces into individual jewels. They celebrate the forming power of nature. These pieces are unique, collected by hand with care, and also assembled by hand, threaded onto discarded fishing nets. These pieces were found on the coast of Barcelona (the Mediterranean sea) and Porto (the Atlantic ocean). That treated and matured by nature has always had a greater value, just think about the most expensive coffee bean the Kopi Luwak, which are the coffee beans that eaten and excreted by the luwak (Indonesian animal).So let's get decorated for the end of the World!

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Darktrashures in Kiev, on the 4th Block Triennial of Eco Posters and Projects