Creative Reuse Pattern One: Finding new uses for things we have access to
Artist Elysa Fenenbock is on number 44 of a 100-day make-meditation. She’s foraging for wildflowers or dropped petals in and around her neighborhood, and turning them into deconstructed portraits.
And designer Silvia Vergani is using flowers in an entirely different way, turning their petals into paint for her toddler’s art projects.
Finding ourselves without access to stores and not venturing far from our homes, we’ve started to take a second look at what is all around us. In fact, finding new uses for things we have access to is one of the most beautiful outputs of constrained times. The art we’re creating now from found objects made us think back to the beautiful flour-sack dresses that became fashionable during World War Two.
And back in 2020, our immediate need for masks — a once scarce-commodity, has us creating face-coverings from fabrics found around the house.
Creative Reuse Pattern One is “Finding new uses for things we have access to.” To play with this pattern in your own life, ask:
How might you repurpose the assets in and around your house?
What else might you create from the things you might formerly have tossed?
Creative Collisions, founded by Amy Bonsall and Kate Piper, is a collective making optimism contagious during the pandemic and beyond. We’re regularly posting positive provocations built on beautiful things we’re seeing happen during the pandemic.
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