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