Here, adhesive sheets were scattered with
the cigarette butts collected from his previous Like an intruder... exhibition and applied with drips of butterfly pea flower tea.
Jesús «Bubu» Negrón creates sculptures and performances by inserting small gestures into the everyday landscape: for example, creating a carpet out of
cigarette butts collected by street sweepers, or mending a cracking bronze public sculpture with a plaster cast.
Not exact matches
TORONTO — Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. (TSX: BIN) has acquired a 19.9 per cent interest in TerraCycle Canada, a specialty recycler that
collects items such as
cigarette butts, coffee capsules and drink pouches — sometimes as part of local fundraising campaigns.
On the other corner: a massive Catholic church the congregation of which would litter their steps with
cigarette butts after service, which me and a buddy would
collect to smoke in a vacant lot nearby and once set it on fire lighting up.
Sept. 20: Packing list for a beach trip: sunscreen, towel, garbage bags... Last year's International Coastal Cleanup
collected more than 12 million pounds of trash — including more than 2 million
cigarette butts.
In Nucleix's experiment, researchers took a small bit of DNA (which can be
collected from an object like a
cigarette butt) from a test subject, replicated it millions of times over, and used it to build an artificial DNA sequence.
Jatuporn Buruspat, head of the DMCR said that his team had
collected up to 138,000
cigarette butts on a 2.5 km stretch of Patong beach in Phuket.
Artist Heather Dewey - Hagborg has
collected DNA samples from
cigarette butts and chewing - gums found on the floor to create realistic portraits of their former owners.