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Tuesday 11 February 2020

Native suculents flora of Aruba Episode 56- LVI

ORANJESTAD — Aruba for being a small island generates an enormous
amount of waste. We must realize that this entire waste was once on a
container as import. Recycling is an essential action to reduce waste that
will be otherwise dumped in the environment. Within this action two ap-
proaches have emerged as possible solutions. The first is down cycling
and the other upcycling. In the former, the break down process is accel-
erated at a high cost and hardly sustainable if not all details are followed
as planned and budged available applied as efficient necessary. The
result must benefit nature and citizen as a result of the process, while in
the latter all waste has a value that can be increased through creative
intervention.

Building with recycled materials

A skate board bench

Our island waste impasse deserves to reach dumping grounds.
a creative solution and a pragmatic
intervention. In our experiment with Dumping must be seen and treated as
upcycling our initial design led to a critical message regarding exces-
the emergence of our native living sive consumption and environmental
lab and atelier at Westpunt Aruba, pollution. Transform waste such as pa-
known as Etnia Nativa. A project that per, cardboard, wood, glass, plastics,
incorporates recollected materials in metals and rubber into works of art
during every phases of its construc- that carries a message will impact the
tion process. The same was applied in connoisseur. The concept, therefore,
the building of artifacts furniture and goes beyond the conventional recy-
artworks which are part of the deco- cling of materials by creating objects
ration, such as lamps, masks, shells that exceed the economic, cultural
and bones feathers and seeds etc. and social value of the original prod-
Upcycled art or upcycling art is cur- uct.
rently inspiring many artists around the
world and prevents tons of garbage Continued on Page 15 Bat Shaman. Art work made completely out of recollected materials