<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6e340d15-8bc4-405c-a88f-933c6135f830/9F42B9B2-5148-4E60-AA5A-E3406EF4857F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fastcompany.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><H2 id="hdr_article-headline"> Artist Turns Fast Food Trash into Delicate Paper Trees </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fastcompany.com/img/5C51C4CD-DA9B-469D-B9CA-9F81EE3111BD" alt="teruya-1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><P>The brown paper bags that McDonald's hands out along with Happy Meals and fries are an unlikely art medium, but artist <A target="_blank" href="http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/" linkindex="17">Yuken Teruya</A> has managed to turn the grease-stained vessels into beautiful, delicate paper forests.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fastcompany.com/img/AD406A37-C8B8-4898-BC1E-141D3A35F34F" alt="Yuken Teruya" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><P>In the <EM>Notice-Forest</EM> series, Teruya cuts one side of a paper bag in a tree shape. The cut-out tree is folded down so that it appears to be part of a diorama to onlookers who look inside the bag. According to Teruya, the diorama is meant to look like a real tree positioned against the shadows of other trees in a forest.  In other words, Teruya reclaims paper bags back into what they once were--trees. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fastcompany.com/img/585B6B9A-E38F-479B-BFAE-8DE117BDEFD7" alt="Yuken Teruya" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/artist-turns-fast-food-trash-delicate-paper-trees?partner=yahoobuzz"><P>Teruya isn't the only artist of late to take disposal fast food items and turn them into unexpected pieces of art.  Designer Scott Jarvie's <A target="_blank" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/clutch-light-demonstrates-beauty-plastic-drinking-straws" linkindex="18">Clutch Light</A> uses hundreds of plastic drinking straws to create a vibrant multi-colored lamp.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9F42B9B2-5148-4E60-AA5A-E3406EF4857F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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