Garbage Dress

Recycle. It's a word, easy to speak but hard to do. Things that human used will someday turn into a garbage. But a garbage won't turn into anything, unless we used it creatively. Many thing can be craft from garbage.

In my hometown, Indonesia, people are very unaware about the environment. There are a place where tons of garbage is gathered. So little effort was made to recycle unused stuff.

While that happen, many art competition held by many school in my town used this opportunity. For example, fashion competition from recycled stuff. I joined this competition with 7 others.

We made a queen dress from 18th century feeling. It is a dress for antagonic character such as an evil queen in Snow White story, but dominating with brown color. Brown because a lot of material we used is from unused paper, unused box, and unused cement paper. And other recycled thing for the details.

Let's make a closer look to the dress :

Trashy thing became an elegant thing. All we need is an idea and an effort to realize it. Mason Cooley has said : "Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage." Then, the challenge is : How can we transform the garbage itself? What can you see from trash? What can you see from our nature? Are we care enough to make the world to be a better place by starting to value our earth?

Can we make our environment looks better?

"To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they're being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth." - Sophia Bush

Mading

Mading is Indonesian term for a paper contain a lot of information and it supposed to be sticked to the wall. That's why it called 'Majalah Dinding', translated in English : 'Wall Magazine'. This information rendered in 2 dimensional form. But in modern time, many people think in more creative ways. They think information can be provided in 3 dimensional ways too. Now, Mading is not only in 2D but also in 3D.

There are Mading Competition called Deteksi in Surabaya, East Java. Highschool student from many city gather in to compete against each other. The Mading competition is categorized into many section, like 2 dimension, 3 dimension, and moveable Mading. Moveable means the Mading moved with electricity or many other sources to show some information provided. Mading 2 dimension is not a flat mading, but it can contain depth but not exceed 30 cm. While the 3 dimensional is a huge mading. Usually taller than the people.

I took a picture of some Mading.

Mading titled Coup Monte by SMA Petra 1 Surabaya :

 

This 2 dimensional Mading contain a lot information about plant and flower. We can directly knows it by visual within the decoration. It made with material such as styrofoam, wood, straw, paper, string, and . For the lighting, they used an interesting show-lamp to brighten the detail. Yes, it contains a lot of detail from this work.

This is 3D Mading with Chinese theme :

Every 3D Mading always done with artificial light built-in the work.

And this is 3D Mading with music and puppet :

There are a button in this mading, when we press it, the mading will produce the sound of classical music. We can play a string puppet too in here. You must already know right away what information is provided in this work.

I also have some picture of team from my school work every year, but the photo-file was left in Indonesia. Sadly, I can't show you right now. Last year, we work on Disney theme. So, we build a huge cinderella disney castle with sparkling glitter. And a blue tiny dog (icon of the competition) called Det, set in the Disney costume like Mickey Mouse, Disney Princess, and other Disneys. And this year our team work on Circus theme.