These two projects repurpose toilet paper tubes & newspapers into sprouting seeds & tree dioramas. Artist Yuken Teruya carves into the toilet paper tubes until they hold their own again like little tree branches forming out of a recycled-paper-pulped trunk. The paper “re-awakens its ability to be an individual tree.” Yuken also sprouts little leaves from the covers of the New York Times. One could only wish it was this easy to turn old paper goods into green life again.
Read my previous blog post about Yuken Teruya: Trees from shopping bags.
this is pure beauty. Re-natured…I always new that these rolls would be useful!
Thank you!!!
Comment by Uschi — March 10, 2009 @ 7:54 am
These are awesome. Now we have no excuses for not being creative, when you can do this with a piece of cardboard trash!
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Comment by Allison O. — March 11, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
Wow… where do you find this stuff? That newspaper with sprouts is pure eye candy. Thanks for gathering up all these fun things in one spot for us to check out!
Comment by Shelley — March 17, 2009 @ 9:43 am
Thanks guys, I love paper art and recycled art - two of my favorite mediums in one! Jason
Comment by Jason Thompson — March 17, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
Beautiful!
Comment by Karin — February 6, 2010 @ 9:04 pm
Wow… The design was impressive! I never thought that a simple toilet paper tubes and a newspaper will be a nice little tree branches.
Comment by vanity units — June 10, 2010 @ 6:58 am