Bruce Munro: CD Sea

I am a big fan of all things recycled, in a prosaic or poetic way, your choice. I grew up like this. Communism did not allow for any superfluous objects, just the very basics. Anything that you could get your hands on was to be interpreted in a multifunctional way: jars, milk bottles, newspapers, cans. Plastic meant luxury; a plastic bag was to be washed and reused until it was completely torn. I did not see plastic bottles until I was 8 years of age, and ran into a group of Italian tourists - a very eccentric encountering. It was a good thing: we used cellophane instead, which is biodegradable. Recycling metal and paper was a necessity.

I could go on forever: a chicken had to yield 4 or 5 dishes, and throwing away any food or animal parts was unacceptable. Hence my cooking is always an improvisation, taking care of whatever would go bad otherwise. I know everything about scavengers and freecyclers. I make lamps out of jars and refashion my clothes to fit the new season. I like silverware turned into jewelry and glasses turned into chandeliers and so on.

When I stumbled upon Bruce Munro's installation, I exulted. The artist laid 600,000 cds in a field and turned it into a sea of light. All unwanted cds from people. Below are the images of his project:






















All images come from http://www.cdsea.co.uk/album.php?startrow=0