DTLA Series, by Sue Dorman, Marina del Rey, CA

To honor "World Fair Trade Day" (May 10th) I thought that an Art Show was in order, especially a show of "repurposed" art.

I heartily recommend that you take a few moments to enjoy the wacky, wonderful and truly beautiful in the current show - Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners now "live" on the Ethical Metalsmiths website at: 

    http://www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org/CGE_Intro.html

A call for entries was posted last November on a number of websites and list serves and sent to schools and metal arts organizations.
    
Artists were asked to consider how to reconcile the way we consume the world's resources, our "evil" habits, with our "good" intentions.

They were asked "to consider what would happen if we tossed our smug habits into a heap? What would happen if we composted our shameless sins, our saintly intentions and our fertile imaginations and pledged to use the resulting fecund glory to redesign and nurture the world?"

Rethinking, redesigning, recycling and repurposing were encouraged.
 
Eighty nine artists responded. The resulting exhibition is a subtly subversive and engaging visual essay about choosing change; it is insightful, humorous, startling, ironic, challenging, beautiful, puzzling, erotic, traditional, thoughtful, accomplished and "other."

There was a digital screening and reception at the SNAG conference in Savannah in addition to its showing on an outdoor digital billboard in front of the building.

Some very interesting work on the pages there. I liked the work bench setup too. Having made "art" from recycled material before it is nice to see that some jewelers are doing a more then adequate job of doing like wise. Almost any one participating in the blacksmiths art is an active recycler. Most of the tools are made from scrap and scrounged material. Jigs and dies are formed from  cast offs or bought from scrap yards. As a part time jeweler I find that I cannot afford the high prices of new tools so I have to improvise a lot of the time. Thanks for sharing the web site with us.