Joe Harvard shares the ideas behind Beauty Thru Radiation and the techniques used to transform plastic containers into the multi-media sculptures at the popular gARTen @ 713 Cookman, an outdoor community garden and black light art gallery dedicated to found objects in Asbury Park, NJ.
This How-to Manual provides a wealth of information on transforming plastic containers and bottles into beautiful flowers for your home or garden with dual personalities: bright and colorful in regular light, magically exotic under UV or "Black light". A great family activity with four easy projects included that provide instruction in the basic techniques needed to launch your own trash art career by collecting, cleaning, preparing, cutting and decorating common plastic cylindrical containers and bottles. A simple tool kit of scissors, an awl or any pointed tool, some Neon Sharpies and a Phillips screwdriver you're ready to develop your Flower Power!
This is the Adult / Instructor BASIC level How-to Manual. A simplified Student level manual is also available. INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED level manuals with further projects derived from Joe's gARTen work are also in production.
Find your own vacant lot, adopt it and combine cleaning the streets with a cool resource for the community. Or just use your own household containers and have some fun.
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