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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Refoliation
| Location: Expo Orange |
Refoliation is a set of trees created from recycled and repurposed steel, with leaves made out of plastic bags collected from the streets of Beijing. Inspired by the garbage littering city streets and tree branches, volunteers in China have gathered enough plastic bags to create hundreds of leaves. In the Bay Area, scrapyard junk from car parts to old pipes came together to form the tree trunks and branches. This project was made possible by a grant from Burning Man.
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Topic(s): Arts | Crafts | Green
Tags: recycled steel plastic sculpture
About the Maker(s)
Jessica Reeder
Jennifer Forbes and Jessica Reeder are first-time artists. They learned to weld in order to make Refoliation, and designed and created everything—from the tree structure to the leaves—out of recycled and repurposed materials.
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