Chair Installation

This amazing art installation was made by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo for the International Instanbul Biennale in 2003. She used over 1,550 chairs stacked on an empty lot between two buildings!"

"Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means."

Underwater Sculpture Gallery

The Underwater Sculpture Gallery in Grenada, West Indies is a project started in May 2006 by sculptor Jason Taylor, with the support of the Grenadian Ministry of Tourism and Culture. This is a unique artistic enterprise, celebrating Caribbean culture and highlighting environmental processes, such as coral reef re-generation.
The Underwater Sculpture Park also explores the ever-changing relationships of Art and the environment, whilst providing a unique and fascinating marine park for scuba diving and snorkelling







There use to be a site for all this where you could watch a video but it is no longer active.

Landmine Art

On Sunday 1st April. artist and activist Will St. Leger placed 100 fake 'landmines' made from stenciled metal plates in park around Dublin, Ireland.

Will explains: "The reason for doing this was to get people asking themselves "what if the world I walked in was littered with landmines?" They're nearly all gone now, the Police took away most of them when a tourist called the emergency number to report 'Landmines'. Afterwards, I wondered who the people of Laos, Cambodia and Iraq gonna call when they step on real landmine?"

My Personal Art Project

Old- April 27th

Ok, so I came up with this idea after collecting a bunch of cigarette packs for another project I never did. I took a look at them today and I have a mountain of them (so far 30 packs- I need a couple hundred probably). The new idea is to create a full skeleton made out of them or even a human shape with possibly the vital organs that smoking damages. I dont know how I plan to do it because I want it to be 3D and for it to work it has to be hanging or something. By the time I complete it I also want to quit smoking. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on making this project realistic or wants to donate some empty packs just post!

-RECENT UPDATE-

I thought it was about time to see how far I have gotten... I have only 102 packs. I tossed a lot out into the garbage at one point.

Here is the Math behind 102 packs.

There are 98 packs with 25 Smokes in a pack.
There are 4 with 20 smokes in a pack.

98 x 25 = 2450 smokes
4 x 20 = 80 smokes

Grand Total = 2530 ciggarettes.

Here is the info on each package:

Toxic emissions: Tar 10-29mg, Nicotine 1.0-2.2mg, Carbon Monoxide 12-29mg, Formaldehyde 0.041-0.12mg, Hydrogen cyanide 0.087-0.25mg, Benzene 0.039-0.085mg.

Now Multiply that by 102...

Thats a ton of junk to put into your lungs.

Me Blogging?

Since a few people have mentioned I should create my own blog instead of posting all the stuff up on facebook I am finally taking the leap. Why? Well I have 43 notes on facebook as of right now. It's a bit much.

You might think the name Destroy to Create is a little weird but the reason I chose it is fairly simple. Most of the art I post up is street art or things that in the end will get destroyed and the artists know it will. Well that or it is what the average person believes is destroying a standard object. In my eyes it is not destruction and hopefully in yours it wont be either.

Most of the stuff that will be on here is going to be gathered from sites, other peoples blogs, and the news. If I don't post the whole thing then I will give a link for it.

Enjoy,
SJ

Here is one of my favorite things I found. It is what got me started on posting cool art.