Artist Sonia Rentsch created this striking series of sculptures for January Biannual (photographed by Albert Comper and art direction by Olivia Nichols), using natural materials like leaves, sticks and seed pods to mimic the form of guns and other weapons. Entitled “Harm Less,” the images stir thoughts of beauty and violence within man and nature.

See the rest: Artist Sonia Rentsch creates guns made from nature

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“As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression.”

via Art for Advocacy: 13 Posters for Sustainable Social Change

Phenomenal artwork by Natalie McKean, who uses scratch art to create these robotic sea creatures.

An entire slideshow/menagerie of critters can be viewed here: http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/culture/artist-scratches-life-into-robotic-aquatic-creatures/

Recycled Orchestra turns trash into music and despair into hope in Paraguayan slums:

“In Cateura, Paraguay, residents essentially live on top of a landfill, and many of them make their living by sorting through the trash in order to find items to sell or refurbish. Poverty keeps kids at risk there for its handmaidens of crime, gangs, drugs, and violence, and hope is not an easy thing to come by.

“But when a passionate teacher in the Cateura begins music classes, and quickly ends up with more students than instruments for them to play, an incredible chain of events is put into motion, with trash being turned into instruments, and kids from the slums being turned into an orchestra.”

Cell phone towers disguised as sad trees

Check out this slideshow of these awesome photos of rusty fire hydrants turned into planets.

Loving these prints from © Koivo. See more prints of Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and more cities here: Art prints illustrate Europe’s great cities

San Francisco’s Bay Bridge gets a fancy new art installation featuring 25,000 twinkling LED lights.

credit: Thierry Cohen, courtesy of Danziger Gallery

Artist carves haunting natural forms into discarded objects (Photos) 

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British artist Tony Plant, a sand-painter and photographer who borrows his canvas from nature by using the wet sand of low-lying coastal lands of England as his working surface. His art is deceptively simple but impressive, employing simple tools like garden rakes to create large-scale sand artworks.

(via Artist’s Massive Sand Paintings Disappear With the Tides (Video) : TreeHugger)

(via Artist’s Astounding Architectural Skylines are Made out of Scrap Wood)

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Modern interpretation of “life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” -L

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