Environmental Art Speaks for the Planet- Artist Visionary Cyrus Kabiru

A self-taught sculptor and painter, Cyrus Kabiru is crafting visually striking artwork from abandoned refuse he collects from the streets of the Kenyan capital.

"When I woke up every morning, the first thing I'd see was trash," recalls Kabiru, whose childhood home faced a garbage heap where all of Nairobi's waste was dumped in Kenya. "I used to say to my dad that when I grow up, I want to give trash a second chance."
And that's exactly what he went on to do.
Cyrus Kabiru's Optical Art is the most fascinating use of re-purposed materials. As the eyes are the light of the soul, Kabiru has reflected and transported the discarded technology of the western world into a bold transmogrification.

Using wires, spoons and bottle tops, his artistry gains a new lease of life for found refuse materials as vital components of his art pieces. His art depicts the concept of looking at the world through rose colored glasses. He has been able to see trash as treasure, yet more to the idea of peering through the looking glasses and seeing the magic of life, nature and the environment.

Kabiru has created other pieces besides his Optical art...

Our Ancient Ancestors paid humble Propitiation to the environment and for anything that was removed. A prayer and offering was made before entering a river, a forest, a cave, or a mountain. if an animal was taken EVERY part of the animal was used, there was no waste… This is how the Artisans and craftworkers came to be. 

Now we produce products that remain in the environment for hundreds of years and do not biodegrade in a healthy way for the planet. Tons of toxic liquids are just sprayed out into the atmosphere from planes, dumped into the oceans, sealed a buried underground, in caves, or even burned!… 

We all have accountability to the planet. All of the trash, like dirty water going down the drain affects the planet in other parts of the world. These pieces of plastic are permeating and permuting the planet. Plastic bottles and lids of all kinds, plastic wrappers, plastic medicine containers, snack wrappers, plastic grocery sacks, bottle tops, Plastic Cigarette lighters, foam meat trays, medical vials and tubing, COVID surgical masks, Latex gloves, spent diabetes needles, broken television monitors, shoe foam inserts, Flip flops spent batteries, Polyester, acrylic and nylon clothing, soda can liners, water bottles, broken television monitors, Aluminum, Mercury, automotive liquids and parts, etc, etc., Are clogging up our waterways sea shores and land .

Remnants of plastic containers end up in the world's oceans where they are beaten by waves and the surf into smaller particles that float, often getting captured by ocean gyres. Other bits end up on beaches. Ingestion of such plastics kills many marine animals. Sea birds, including petrels and albatrosses, think floating plastic is food and they feed it to their chicks, killing them. Marine turtles mistake floating plastic bags for their natural food jellyfish and eat it, becoming constipated and die.

Plastic products are dangerous and hazardous to your health as well as the lives of many other animals. It is best not to drink out of plastic bottles or eat canned food from cans lined with plastic. Do not microwave food in plastic containers -- use glass, it's inert.

 

These pictures inspired me and effected my thoughts on my creative journey.. These photos are why I began Adenike’s Arts, reduce, reuse, recycle an environmental Art initiative. 

We now have plastic in our food supply, a in our children’s vital organs. Researchers studying the effects of female hormones on cancer were perplexed when their distilled water controls tested positive for the female hormone estrogen. Eventually, after some months of sleuthing, they discovered that the plastic centrifuge tubes they were using were leaching out molecules that mimicked estrogen. Further research identified the offending molecules as alkylphenol polyethoxylates (chemicals found in many detergents, pesticides, and personal-care products), which can break down into nonylphenol and other chemicals that mimic estrogens when they encounter bacteria in animals' bodies, in the environment, or in sewage treatment plants. Another group of researchers found an estrogen mimic, bisphenol-A, leaching from polycarbonate, an entirely different kind of plastic. Polycarbonate is used in the manufacture of lab flasks, as well as many consumer products, including jugs and bottles used for drinking water. Bisphenol A is also found in high concentrations in the plastic linings used for canned foods. The use of plastic containers for baby foods is of grave concern.

Certain plastics in common use, produce estrogen mimics that disrupt the action of normal hormones, causing feminization. Unfortunately these leach into groundwater supplies. If ingested, these molecules can cause breast and prostate cancers, premature puberty among young females, as well as decreased sperm counts among males. Estrogen mimics from plastics also provoke insulin resistance which can lead to diabetes.

WE EACH HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! Melinite people must speak on behalf of the environment.

WE MUST SAVE PERMANENT STANDARD TIME 

AND END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME!

PLASTIC DOES NOT BIODEGRADE BACK INTO THE ENVIRONMENT! They represent our toxic waste and the gigantic carbon footprint of each individual, in a consumer society. So many of these plastic fragments are eaten by birds and toxic fluids are consumed by fish. So many animals are choking, suffocating, and caught in plastic.
This is the view of Cyrus Kibiru. Since his childhood, he had the view of a garbage mountain of imperialistic conspicuous consumerism waste. Through all of the toxic slop, he has made something beautiful.

Links:

Pacific Garbage Patch
Trash Vortex
Plastic Pollution
Trashed Pacific

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