What A Load Of Rubbish! Offbeat Sculptor Recycles Trash Into Art
By Emma Pearson @emma_pear
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Rubbish-raider Artur Bordalo uses damaged bumpers, discarded kitchen appliances, tyres and bins to create stunning 3D murals of nature.
The larger-than-life artworks, titled ‘Big Trash Animals’ plaster the streets of Lisbon and carry a stark warning about the dangers of human greed and consumerism.
Artur, known as Bordalo II, depicts the natural habitats he believes humans have destroyed in their accumulation and discarding of material possessions.
The environmentally conscious 27-year-old scours wasteland and abandoned factories gathering his materials in his quest to make trash meaningful.
Artur, from Lisbon, Portugal, said: “It´s about creating the image of the victims with what kills them.
“The greed for nothing is so big that we are destroying the planet to keep our insignificant lives full of objects that we probably don’t even need.
“I´m inspired by the real world. We live in a crazy world where the consumerism, materialism, capitalism have more than a world to say.
“It rules human lives.”
Artur has also built murals across Berlin, Covilhã, Estarreja, Baku and Carballo.
After assembling the rubbish, Artur painstakingly paints the metal and rubber, with each taking around a week to build.