Columba College pupils (from left) Shannon Morton (15),
Emily Poon (14), Laura Carruthers (14) and Annabel Wennekes
(14) with household items they have transformed into art.
Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
While toilet paper has traditionally only had one use,
year 10 art pupils at Columba College have found another.
The class has taken household items, which can't be
decomposed easily in landfill, covered them in toilet paper
and then painted them bright colours.
The artistic display - titled Residual Objects - contained
gumboots, a telephone, radio, lamps, computer keyboard, hair
drier and drill, and was set up in the teenage section of the
Dunedin Public Library this week to highlight the amount of
unrecyclable material sitting around the average Dunedin
household, art pupil Laura Carruthers said.
"We wanted to turn something that can't be recycled into
something useful."
Art pupil Shannon Morton said the display also marked the
first anniversary of Columba College becoming an
Enviroschool, an initiative which was growing in New Zealand
schools.
- john.lewis@odt.co.nz
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