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The concept for this piece was for my partner and I to look at the way that trash and pollution will affect all of us no matter where we are. We created landscapes of our cities to show that although both cities are different, they are connected due to the amount of trash that plagues both. Although mine is small, I do think that the meaning is powerful.

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Our world is diverse in its shapes, flavors, and textures, yet we face a common challenge: a growing waste crisis. This urgency demands not just a shift in our consumption habits but also accountability from major corporations in their use of resources, particularly plastic. It's not that plastic itself is inherently harmful, but rather its indiscriminate application and irresponsible usage. True progress necessitates a global commitment, such as embracing small yet impactful changes like reducing our dependence on plastic. This goes beyond individual responsibility to foster a collective spirit of solidarity toward a shared global well-being. Juan Esparza Enríquez

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The main idea was to make a mosaic to simulating the parthenon, but in the process i had to many ideas so the sky is made by little pieces of milk cardboard leaving blank spaces to simulate the cloud movement. Then i used cardboard strips to simulate the pillars on the side and milk tapes for the ones in the front the main idea here is that the shadow hits on the side so the color make the shadow effects on the pillars, also, the color in the front simulates that the sun is hitting the front pillars. For the pedimental roof I use the same concept of the shadows but i also use thicker cardboard to make a difference, and if you watch closely the same kind of cardboard was used for the base of the parthenon. I food wrappers to simulate a dirty garden.  Me and my Partner used the same concept, we tried to make important greek and roman arquitecture models to To explain the relationship ancient cultures had with waste, ancient civilizations were also part of consumerism and faced waste disposal issues. The Parthenon and the Trevi Fountain (the model my partner used) are vital parts of these civilizations, which may currently be affected by waste problems. It was also discussed that waste can impact tourism at these monuments and affects their historical significance, especially as it's not surprising to see increasing amounts of litter and pollution nowadays. And the name of my creation is: "Το Παρθενώνας από μια άλλη οπτική γωνία", which means: ""The Parthenon from another perspective"

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Marco Antonio Ordoñez Calzada.    "Το Παρθενώνας από μια άλλη οπτική γωνία" (To Parthenónas apó mia álli optikí gonía).             

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Marco Antonio Ordoñez Calzada.    "Το Παρθενώνας από μια άλλη οπτική γωνία" (To Parthenónas apó mia álli optikí gonía).             

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My idea for this piece was for a mosaic-like(not really a mosaic but I don't have a better word) depiction of a piece of the Trevi fountain. I found this really cool picture of the fountain from the view of the water and picked a piece of it, as I was unable to do all of it. Then I broke it down to the basic pieces and (to the best of my ability) recreated it using paper bags. I then covered it with some cellophane I had and attempted to shine light through empty glass bottles to get it to look like it was a reflection in the water. If you look at the picture that I chose (link here:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coins-tossed-romes-trevi-fountain-still-go-to-poor-180971262/) you can see that there are a ton of coins at the edge of the picture. That is a tradition that comes from the superstition that if you toss a coin over your shoulder into the fountain you will return to the city. I made those out of extra white paper, more paper bags, painted thin cardboard, and the inside of chip bags. I used a hole puncher to make them as uniform as possible, and while it took a few tries, I got it to where I wanted it. Me and my partner wanted to highlight ancient Roman pieces and show how tourism has changed how we view them. And while the coin thing is relatively harmless as the money will now go to charity, there are instances where these sites are being destroyed both directly and indirectly.	All in all, this was a fun undertaking. Looking back there were some things that did not work out that I wish did. I wish the picture had more of the water effect I had hoped for, I wish I realized to use more than one shade of brown paper bag, I wish it was easier to hole punch paper bags, but most of all I wish I could take a better picture. The camera makes it look different than it is. But it was fun to trace out the statue and map out the pieces. Maybe one day I will try this again with better results. 

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The intention of the project was to resemble a castaway sign, using plastic bottles and a cardboard box that we gathered through the month we worked on the project 

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This piece is called "Ayuda" and is created using only plastic bottles that I gathered at home and held together with hot glue. The piece has three sections or "layers" that make it a unified piece. The bottom consists of crushed bottles that I flattened out to make a baseboard for the rest of the piece. The crushed bottle represents the environment and how we have "crushed" and "destroyed" it with our overuse of single use plastics and garbage in general. the second layer is fully intake gallon bottles, that I left unaltered. To me this shows the weight of the problem and how blatant this garbage problem in the world is becoming. the bulkiness and size of these gallons just represents the massive amount of waste we create and how the task of getting rid of it is a lot larger and heavier than we think. The last layer is on top and it was created by gluing bottles to spell out "AYUDA" which means help in Spanish. This was my way of screaming for help in what seems to be a world of complete acceptance for our trash problem. 

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The fashion industry stands as one of the primary sources of pollution on our planet, being the second most polluting according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This reality confronts us with the challenge of dealing with the excess of unwanted, fast fashion, or vintage clothing, which significantly contributes to the increase in landfills in all countries. Additionally, this industry accounts for approximately 9% of the annual losses of microplastics in the oceans.                                      In this context arises Renewal, a powerful symbol of transformation. Crafted entirely from recycled plastic bottles, this corset redefines elegance by intertwining sustainability with style. Its intricate design highlights the beauty of recycled materials, urging viewers to reconsider their consumer choices. "Renewal" isn't just art; it's a call to action that inspires us to embrace sustainable fashion and drive positive change towards a greener future.

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RENEWAL by Nadia Torrescano                                    

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RENEWAL by Nadia Torrescano                                    

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For my project, I made a dress (though it ended up more like a two piece set) from leftover cardboard, and paper infill from our boxes at work. The top is a corset design, and the bottom is a high waisted skirt with a slit on the side. With fast fashion companies like Shein, and Temu taking over, They're  literally sending us our trash back from overseas. The lead-filled clothing often times in good faith ends up in thrift stores, but people don't want to buy paper-thin clothes that will not last them very long. There is an impotence to shop sustainably. Not always secondhand, but think about what you're buying. Things like basic T-shirts, jeans, and white sneakers are always in style. The trend you saw the other day may not make you happy down the line, and you may end up waste money trying to "fit in".

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For my project with Pedro we talked a lot about the word consumption. I believe this word to have two meanings and each of our pieces really represents one of those meanings. For mine, I wanted to address the idea of over consumption and how much trash can be created when we buy and gain things that we don’t necessarily need. this could be something like extra clothing or food waste. So, with this idea, I decided to create a magazine out of leftover food and shopping bags. Each page has a slogan. The slogans are as follows, “ things are the new stuff” “buy buy buy buy buy “ “ new new new new new “ “ Sale buy 10 of what you don’t need “ “ buy 1 get more than you need”. Ultimately, I wanted this piece to represent what it’s like to consume in a capitalist society. In Pedro’s sculpture, he touched upon consumption in a way that talks about our over consumption of our planets resources. More specifically, our water that can be polluted by cigarettes and other pollutants. Just like clothing and fast fashion these pollutants are unnecessary for survival. 

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My idea was to grab used cigarettes and silicone to simulate as if it were water, They also contaminate water a lot you could do something with that fact as well. I loved that idea because
We live in an interconnected world where our individual choices are not limited to our own well-being, but also affect the environment we share with all life on the planet. The idea that “smoking is not necessary to live” is a key reminder of how personal decisions can have a negative impact on our health and the world we inhabit.

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Decisiones Personales y consecuencias globales |Pedro 

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Decisiones Personales y consecuencias globales |Pedro 

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The concept of my partner and I is to show troughout this exhibition a sense of awareness about how much pollution is in the world today, but not only pollution, also to realize that there is plenty of animals that die because of these reason. There are plenty of images showing how animals die with bunch of plastic around ther bodies and that was part of the inspiration to put plastic aroun a female body in the shape of a dress.

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My partner and I wanted to make works to spread awareness of the pollution in our world and it's consequences. I live on a fairly major road but surrounded by woods. Passing cars constantly throw garbage at the end of my driveway and into the woods. We have tons of animals around us like hawks, eagles, deer, foxes and my favorite critter, racoons. Also known as “trash pandas” they are known for foraging through garbage to find food. I wanted to create a creature that was mutating into trash because that’s all it has left to eat, which is increasingly becoming the case as we fill animal’s homes with our waste. The raccoon's insides turning into garbage, man-made taking over nature. Creatures have had to adapt to the situations we’ve forced them into, we make them choose to evolve or die. (Made of paper shopping bags, bread tabs, can tabs, milk caps, soda cap, acrylic paint)

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Also read as Jeez, Contamination. The meaning behind my art piece is mostly centered on the way we have polluted and corrupted the environment to the point where animals suffer and nature itself continues the course of the massive destruction we have caused. With my art I want to raise awareness about this damage we are doing, so that nature no longer has to suffer for us, so that it can flourish and recover as it should. The process I followed for the realization of the work was first to collect the trash from my house and some that I generated myself while I was at school. Then I agreed with my partner Layne to have the same concept in our works, which is pollution with inspiration from the landscapes of Studio Ghibli films. Eventually, without having made a sketch on how I would do it, I generated ideas in the process. I started with the lake and from that I started to include healthy natural elements and elements of pollution, I included garbage in the lake and ashes in the surroundings as the biggest impact we have, I also put garbage in a corner to show some of the things that can be found in our surroundings that severely affect nature. Finally, I put it all together and that is how I arrived at the final product of my project.

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G's Contamination - Maribel Cruz Martínez

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G's Contamination - Maribel Cruz Martínez

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Inspired by Studio Ghibli backgrounds and scenes, my partner, Maribel and I had agreed to center our focus across human contamination and how environments including plants and animals can suffer from waste carelessly thrown away into our environments. Using the recycled resources I could gather, I wanted to use similar colors and elements related to a specific scenery depicted in the Studio Ghibli's 'Howl's Moving Castle' of a lake, but this once clean lake has been contaminated with human trash that has trapped the turtle seen within the water and has made even it's way to the land, killing the plants near the water as well. This shows how quickly this contamination can spread and affect life around it. 

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My partner and decided to make two sculptures in relation to our concept: recycling of trash to avoid the contamination in green areas. My sculpture represents the connection between humans and our planet as a single organism. I present this like a man made of wood “an Ent”. But we know that human body is math and perfection by the art. My sculpture is not the exact body representation because we don’t have a perfect relationship with our planet. That why my sculpture doesn’t look like a real human body and some of its parts are not finished, or they look very primitive. This also represents a Ent because they live hundreds of years and that is all the time were going to need to improve our relationship with our planet.

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My concept art is a message for us all. We must save the planet and our ecosystem. now more than ever. Plastic has become more detrimental to nature than it has ever been.Recycling and using biodegradable matter is now imperative.-Kounadi

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My partner and I decided to make our art look like sports equipment. Sports is something we both had in common. The waste produced from sports isn't talked about much. I found a few articles abut the amount of trash from sports events and stadiums. Waste management companies tend to expect that each attendee to generate one pound of trash. A NFL game generates 35 tons of waste. I thought this would be an important issue to bring awareness too. I painted a stadium as the background just with acrylic paints and then used plastic from water bottles to make the sports equipment. I made a football helmet, hockey stick, and a tennis racket. 

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My partner and I decided to do our art look like sports equipment  since we both like sports. The waste that is produced by sports is a problem that is not talked about much, and yet it is an incredibly big problem.So my partner and I believe that it is important to bring awareness of this. My artwork is a baseball bat and some bowling pins, made of course out of trash. 

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This was in collaboration with my partner. My piece shows the destruction and decay of things, but it can also become something new and flourish. This is supposed to show the destruction humans have caused to the planet. It is depicted by trash everywhere and the building falling apart due to changes and things that humans have caused. The process started with my partner already having a project they wanted to build on, so we decided to make another piece to go along with it. I used materials that I had saved from the student organization offices, my trash, and some of my friend's trash. 

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The concept behind both pieces my partner and I made is about how things can be destroyed, completely or partially, and how them being built up again, reflourishing, actually means that the new patches make things have a different sense, many times a better and more accurate one to its actuality. It’s something that I wanted to depict with nature, as most of the times it takes over what humans once made, and make it alive again. The process pretty much started since we first agreed on having two different pieces, so I took the model that basically helped us building up the idea and painted it with leftover green paint from another project and used different materials gained over the weeks for creating plant and flower-like figures that represented the re flourishing of it. As some time has gone by over the model, some parts of its shape have changed, but none of them were changed or fixed, as that, and many of the irregular little details, help give off the message behind it, about its uniqueness and the beauty of them. 

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The concept that my partner and I decided to focus on revolved around the idea of how we make trash beautiful. We wondered how can stuff we typically throw away become something that is worth saving. We realized that even seemingly useless objects can acquire a new purpose, a new aesthetic, and a new meaning.
The idea of exploring how we could creatively redefine waste excited us, turning what was once considered trash into something truly beautiful and meaningful. We set out to find new ways to reuse, recycle and reinvent, hoping to inspire others to see the potential in what is normally thrown away and to promote a greater awareness of the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling in our day-to-day lives. What we did was to take recycled bottles and turn them into ornaments.

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Me and my partner collaborated through thinking of the concept "How can we make trash beautiful?" We both passed around ideas and landed on making flowers through plastic bottles. My partner Lizz Gomez made a beautiful flower made out of plastic and hanging beads. I loved her imagination throughout her work and I am so happy that we were able to communicate our ideas through trash. For my part of COIL, I decided to create a bouquet with similar materials as her. I collected and cut up dozens and dozens of water bottles. I then cut them into petal shapes and melted each individual petal with lighting a candle and holding the plastic over the petal to get an organic shape. I then glued each petal together one by one until I got a flower that I was proud of. I then repeated this process. I really love how me and my partners work came out! I do want to extend this project into a larger form and make more flowers when I have the time and enough materials. Also I think that the flowers look more convincing in real life because they are clear and you can get a sense of space when holding them in person. Thank You!

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My partner Valeria and I made flowers for our project as it peaked both of our interests. Through our flowers, we show how trash affects the “beauty” of nature. We used recyclable materials that would end up in landfills and contribute to pollution to create the flowers.  Plastics and other types of materials take many, many years to break down and can harm the environment and living things. I used two aluminum cans for my flower as well as a broken hanger for the stem. For the “vase” I used a plastic Dunkin Donuts cup and wrapped it with black construction paper.

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My partner and I decided to make some flowers with recyclable products and garbage, we decided to do this work because there is a lot of pollution in the environment and it also symbolizes the big problem that is throwing away and producing garbage with a lot of plastics and the consequences it brings for nature.

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This is the piece of art me and my partner made, two turtles emerge from a sea of plastic waste, their forms constructed from a collage of discarded wrappers and bottles. Their once graceful shells are now marred by the detritus of human consumption, a stark juxtaposition against the natural beauty of the ocean they inhabit. The turtles, symbols of resilience and vulnerability, serve as a powerful reminder of our collective responsibility to address the environmental crisis threatening our oceans.

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This is the piece the Gala and I made. Using mostly plastic bottles, wrappers etc. to create a collage atop photos of sea turtles, we wanted to show the devastating effects our consumption habits have on the ocean and it's life forms. These gorgeous, iconic creatures being made of trash creates a juxtaposition between natural beauty and the man-made, showing the hand that each of us specifically have had in tainting the environments, ecosystems, and creatures of the world. 

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My partner and I decided the concept of our work of art randomly, and I think it actually ended up being better than I expected. Our concept was initially built with both of us doing a brainstorm, and we agreed on recreating an axolotl on its habitat (which has been damaged due to trash). I made the axolotl and they made the background. The materiales we used were thought to be trash from "short term happiness" as we called it, meaning that we tend to make trash from buying stuff we don't actually need but we buy it to satisfy a momentary craving or whim. We used mainly food and snacks trash. What we want to show is that not only the axolotl, but many species are in danger of extinction because of pollution and trash we generate, and to be smart at the moment of buying stuff. To think if it is essential or urgent before buying.

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My partner and I wanted to focus our project on the sea and its pollutants. Plastic waste, fishing nets, and toxic spills/runoff from factories, farms, and tankers. Sea horses are more vulnerable to pollutants than other sea creatures. This is mainly because sea horses move slowly. They typically hide away from predators, and wait for prey. They cannot escape when something like an oil spill invades their environment. An entire ecosystem of seahorses can be wiped out by one spill. Seahorses also have long and rigid bodies, which easily get entangled in plastic waste. They are often found entangled in beer case plastic, and other wrappers. We decided to make our artwork using such plastics to further represent this. 

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Our idea is based on UN goal 14: Marine life. Seas are a vital part of our life on Earth, that's why it’s urgent to keep them clean and preserve the species that live there. The objective of our work was to represent a marine animal using materials that commonly pollute the seas. We chose to use the seahorse because it is an animal that is very vulnerable to pollution, and they are also fished in large quantities to be used as ornaments, so what better way to have a seahorse ornament made with recycled materials than a real one?

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The concept for this piece was to speak on trash in the ocean. We are so close to the ocean yet every time I go down to the ocean there's always a large amount of trash and litter. I think recognizing this issue and making an effort to reduce the amount of trash in the ocean is a necessary conversation and I hope my art dictates that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olG73V4z8zU&t=1s 

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We concept is to see the beautiful of the death and to see the other side of this, because the death is only the begin for other opportunity. And to see the beatiful of the death and is only the finish of your pain and see the death to a friend 

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Me and my partner decided to use the concept of our trash being used to build the cities we live in to enforce reusable material, job creation and lower-income city support. The focus of the city was directed towards areas we were familiar with, and the trash included lays down the foundation and other elements of buildings included. I decided to push the layout of the concept by also focusing on how Somerville, the city I live in, is both historical and modern. Even with several recognizable historical buildings around the city, including the Somerville Theater, City Hall, Central Library, Union Square Mural, and the Somerville Museum, there is so much that can be done to preserve and provide construction and architectural efforts to keep these same buildings green. Reusable material should always be enforced, which can provide more spaces for more jobs and also support lower-income families to live in or around. This, all leading to a combination of a more green-modern feel to a historical city. A great example of this is the Davis Square Library in Somerville. As for the process of the creation of this piece, all material included to create the buildings already mentioned is from trash. The brown backgrounds are from cut-out pieces of shopping paper bags. These lay the foundation for each building. There is also a minimal use of other trash included like the plastic from water bottles, wrapping of water bottles, and receipts that represents how, since there buildings are historical, the use of reusable material should be included while still preserving the authenticity of the building. All pieces of trash were glued on. I hand drew the detailing of all the buildings which represents the human touch to what we build. Even with the goal to go greener, humans have a play in purpose and detail, especially when it comes to buildings. Colored markers were used to add a piece of color as ll of these efforts should add a brightness to any city which leads to a welcoming environment. 

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The concept my partner and I based our projects on was how trash can be used to 'build' cities, in a sense of reusable material and energy or even generating jobs for areas with low income. With this in mind, we both chose a specific place in our city, and with the trash we gathered, we represented the buildings and constructions from that place. My process started by using watercolors for the mountains and sky, and then for the actual buildings, I used markers to have a background to work on so I could start pasting the pieces of trash I previously cut. And lastly, I pasted the drawing of the clock, already painted and with the pieces of trash and cardboard.

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The concept of my partner and I was to show through various recycled materials (cardboard and glass bottles) that like the world, although immersed in problems, there is always a part of it that can be reborn little by little and continues to live to demonstrate that there is still beauty in the same world, as you can see, the branches of a tree growing from a glass bottle and the flowers growing on the same branches and grass growing where the bottle is while the rest remains dry.

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Leonel Omar Torres García                                                       "La renaissance du monde" 

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Leonel Omar Torres García                                                       "La renaissance du monde" 

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The work titled "An Ordinary Life" captures an everyday moment that resonates universally in the human experience: a woman hanging clothes on a clothesline. This simple gesture evokes the daily work that we all face, regardless of our geographic location or culture. From Mexico to any other corner of the world, hanging clothes is part of our routines, whether due to the need to wash them or put them away.

The choice to use cardboard as the material for this artistic representation adds an additional layer of meaning. Cardboard, commonly associated with the informal economy and creative reuse, highlights the idea of ​​the simplicity and accessibility of ordinary life. Furthermore, its ephemeral nature suggests the transience of everyday moments that often go unnoticed, and beyond that it seems to me that cardboard is a material that is present at all times in life and if you go to a dumpster or in In any garbage bag you will find some cardboard, yes or yes.

It is important to highlight that the making of this work was influenced by the particular circumstances of the creative process. Communication challenges with the initially planned artistic partner led to an open collaboration, allowing the work to evolve to integrate with another collaborator's vision. This collaborative approach reflects the diversity and interconnection inherent to the human experience, enriching the work with multiple and enriching perspectives, such as how serious this work can be connected with another 3D sculpture due to its size that encompasses a very small and easy to incorporate into another artistic work and this more for its additional context of the work.

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MY first picture wasn't as clear as I wanted, so I wanted to update the background so hopefully this is clearer