Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners

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This article was originally posted on Userblogs on 6/1/2008.

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To honor "World Fair Trade Day" (May 10th) I thought that an Art Show was in order, especially a show of "repurposed" art.

I heartily recommend that you take a few moments to enjoy the wacky, wonderful and truly beautiful in the current show - Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners now "live" on the Ethical Metalsmiths website at:
http://www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org/CGE_Intro.html

A call for entries was posted last November on a number of websites and list serves and sent to schools and metal arts organizations. Artists were asked to consider how to reconcile the way we consume the world's resources, our "evil" habits, with our "good" intentions.

They were asked "to consider what would happen if we tossed our smug habits into a heap?

What would happen if we composted our shameless sins, our saintly intentions and our fertile imaginations and pledged to use the resulting fecund glory to redesign and nurture the world?"

Rethinking, redesigning, recycling and repurposing were encouraged. Eighty nine artists responded.

The resulting exhibition is a subtly subversive and engaging visual essay about choosing change; it is insightful, humorous, startling, ironic, challenging, beautiful, puzzling, erotic, traditional, thoughtful, accomplished and "other."

There was a digital screening and reception at the SNAG conference in Savannah in addition to its showing on an outdoor digital billboard in front of the building.

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