Artists change simple recycle bags to treasures
BRIXTON – How artists and their spray can add to the lives of reclaimers.
Recently artists got together to transform into treasure, what many in our community might consider trash.
On one special morning reclaimers watched as the bags they pull daily across the various suburbs were, probably for the first time, tended to by someone else. They gathered at Brixton-based art gallery and studio, the Shade, to have their trolley bags uniquely spray-painted by artists.
Tamzyn Botha, founder of the art gallery, said within the gallery they have Waste Not Want Not project, a multi-disciplinary project curated by the Shade which acts as an intersection between waste reclaimers, artists and youth to align in a way that is enduring and self-sustaining.
Recently trolley bags were spray-painted by artists, to mark the start of the next artist in residence at the gallery, under their Waste Not Want Not project, Mpho Makutu, who builds robotics out of trash.
Now, one can assume that added to the recyclable goods reclaimers haul, they now also carry with them the sense of pride of knowing their presence, within the Brixton community, is one that is appreciated and celebrated in such unique ways.
