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what can you make with

recycled materials?

Listen and read. What materials do they use?

Giant Tap, Switzerland The Bruges Puppy, Spain
Whale, Belgium This huge dog sculpture sits outside
I saw this amazing sculpture
a museum in Bilbao. It's very
in a park in Winterthur. It looks This giant whale special because it's completely
like a tap is magically hanging in is made of plastic
covered in plants - about 38,000
the air, but it's actually a simple waste from the flowers in total! Metal pipes inside
illusion. Water from under the Pacific Ocean
a hidden frame send water to the
ground travels up a pipe, which and when you plants to keep them alive.
holds the giant metal tap in look closely, you can see that there
place. We can't see it because the are thousands of plastic objects, I love that the sculptor uses nature
water flows over it when it comes from bins to toilet seats! Two artists because it shows that art is always
out. created the sculpture to show how growing and
much we're polluting our world. changing. The
Everyone stops
to look at it Did you know there's more plastic in artist wanted to
carefully to see our oceans than whales! create something
how it works. It Lots of artists are working with to make people
feels magical, recycled materials now, which Is happy, and
and that's the important because it connects art I think this
idea of art - to with the world around us. I love sculpture really
does that.
create something how creative and interesting this
different that sculpture is.
surprises us.

Read again and complete the table.

Giant Tap The Bruges Whale Puppy
What is it metal, (1) water recycled (4) metal (7)
made of? (8)

Water travels up a The artists collected Water travels through
How was it (2) pipes to keep the
made? and plastic (5). (9)
flows out of the tap. from the Pacific Ocean. alive.
It shows that art can It gives the message that Art is (10).
What is the (3) we're (6). and (11)
message? us.
our world.

How do the sculptures make you feel and why? What other sculptures do you
know about?

This sculpture makes me laugh. -FIND OUT MORE-
What is the biggest sculpture
I saw a metal sculpture of a bear in the world?
and a tree in the centre of Madrid.

52 Art: sculptures | creative thinking