Yesterday's leaves are being replaced by today's garbage. This garbage is turning into a natural feature of our environment. Urban garbage, as it's called, is becoming our next nature. It is invading our streets like a modern tumbleweed, effectively creating a phenomenon known as Urban Tumbleweed.
This Urban Tumbleweed creates a footprint of a city. To illustrate this footprint, Urban Tumbleweeds were constructed using genuine trash from the streets of both Düsseldorf and Eindhoven. Though the results appear similar, they offer a lot of detail when being observed from a closer perspective.
The question remains: what would Urban Tumbleweed from another continent look like?
Created by: Jan van der Asdonk, Guus Baggermans and Brian Garret Schuur.
Related: Trash People, American self-portrait, Portraits of American Mass Consumption.
Mariana
hello, I have a very similar project in Mexico City... could you be more precise about what a tumbleweed is?
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Rodrigo Machado
very beautiful work !!
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Samson
makes me think of the videogame "We Love Katamari". Nice artwork.
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