ReWorks asked local artists to create works of photography to show the process of transformation. ReWorks hopes these images will help you reframe how you look at curbside recycling.
Artist - Kathleen D. Gallagher
Material - Cardboard
Yeah! Corrugation! I love how boxes have so many layers of corrugation.
I wanted to show that my battery box is more than a box. Literally, the box carries items such as, in this case, batteries. But the cardboard box itself is made up of from a flute, or complex structure of layers made up from recycled paper (could be made from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources--other sources of energy!) and sandwiched between liners.
I decided to take the photos from the box and turn into a collage that shows all the hundreds of ways one can look at a box and named it "This Side Up" because that is a phrase often seen on a box with fragile contents. Yet a box is more than its contents and "This End Up" suggests all the ways one could look at a box, to use, recycle, or reuse. Energy is multifaceted.
I never really thought deeply about boxes before. I learned that boxes were created by accident in the 1870's by an American printer named Robert Gair. Ironically enough, Gair was making paper bags and accidentally created a box when he cut into a paper bag that was meant to be creased. I find it very telling that he basically reused a paper bag by turning it into something new.
The next time you use a box, thank Robert Gair for his ingenuity in upcycling paper bags which ended up in a new creation for holding items in our lives. I will never look at a box the same way again.
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