Organic art
Did you know that your food cupboard is an art material warehouse? Yes, really! Next time you search through it, gathering old canned foodstuffs with expired dates stamped on their lids, consider bringing those materials outside for an excercise in creativity! Yes, there is an art project in your cupboard, waiting for you to discover it! Here’s how…
Take those cans, that old nasty cereal, whatever it is you won’t consider eating any longer and go outside, cans (& opener in tow). Choose a safe place (or places), and create some artwork! Construct a tree shape out of old string beans on an otherwise barren patch of dirt, make designs of the sun and the moon and your favorite animal using those canned peas, creamed corn, and whatever else you’ve rescued from the recesses of the pantry. Use old peanut butter or honey as a natural adhesive and put a design on a tree trunk. Use dried oatmeal or nuts for backgrounds for your scenes or to fill in spaces left in your designs by the larger food items. Crumble things up! Stick ’em on end! See how creative you can get while getting back in touch with Mother Earth, and leave in your wake a wonderful gift for your natural neighbors.
Of course, your designs won’t stay as you put them, but that’s part of the process after all – this is organic art, and it will be accepted, absorbed, utilized and appreciated by those aspects of nature that we all too often forget about or actively ignore. To give back to nature, while enjoying yourself in the process, is a much nicer alternative than just tossing that old food in a landfill somewhere.
Enjoy! And don’t forget a towel!
Peace, as One with Nature…
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