Trash to Treasure:Heath Nash
By beccajo
South African artist/designer Heath Nash takes recycling to a new level!
These lamps are gorgeous, but I can't seem to find a distributor in the US of his work.
How weird would it be to ship repurposed garbage from South Africa over to Minnesota? There's enough loose plastic floating around the US already. I do appreciate that he uses local artizans, and they make them 'by hand'. I'm sure they recycle the waste bits, but still, recycling isn't the same as reusing.
Although I don't support ripping off another person's ideas or methods, in this case, it might be easier and better for the environment to DIY. I bought a wee lamp from this lovely lady, I probably could have made one but getting one from the artist made much more sense to me, in that case........
Any thoughts? If I make one for myself, and don't ever sell one, am I being unfair to Heath?
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Hay i made something like this by cutting flowers out of old dvd cases! i had hundreds of them and the cds were in books. I just hot-glue-gunned them together and dangled them from a regular lampshade, with the actual shade removed from it. i'll post it so you can see. (i did it like two years ago and never heard of or seen this guys' work, so you have permission to rip the idea off of me ;)
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