When you find yourself with a pile of cardboard toilet paper rolls, what do you do with them? Throw them in the recycling bin or compost pile, use them to grow seedlings in the spring or give them to your kid to be turned into an art project. But artist Yuken Teryua shows how these mundane objects can be transformed into surprisingly beautiful art that inspires and amazes.
Yuken’s ‘Everyday Objects’ series consists of items like pizza boxes, a McDonald’s bag, flags, shopping bags, plastic bottles and other things that would have otherwise ended up in the waste stream. Silhouettes of trees are a common theme, emphasizing the connection between these throwaway objects and the natural world. Don’t read too much into Yuken’s use of these materials, however. The Japanese artist prefers to leave politics and polarizing ideas out of his work.
From Inhabitat:
The artist shows a knack for seeing potential in every day objects to become something eye-catching, and believes that while artwork is a reflection of the artist’s beliefs — it is also important that artwork engages its viewers. Yuken says:
I feel that my work shouldn’t only have the function of conveying the artist’s message. My works have a right to simply be beautiful or offer any kind of attraction.
Yuken’s recycled papercraft art is especially beautiful, with delicate branches seeming to spring organically from such unexpected places. Check out all of his work at YukenTeryuaStudio.com.
Link [Inhabitat] + [Yuken Teryua]
