Kennedale Eco Creatures

At the heart this is a project about breathing new life into the discarded and unwanted. Inspired by the Ecostation itself, a place where objects are are left for appropriate disposal, or picked up for further use. These 5 images depict characters created out of found objects which where at the end of their normal life span, discarded and then collected by the artist.

The artist Brandon Blommaert says that each image was inspired by these items, and through sketching, experimenting and just spending time with the materials these characters slowly emerged. The sculptures where then combined with pristine Canadian landscapes. Combining these elements the man-made and the natural, creates the sense that these objects, though out of place, have somehow sprung to life and are now carrying on by themselves. The vignettes offer up a fantastical but somewhat banal day to day glimpse into these characters’ lives.

This work is partly a comment on traditional landscape imagery, where human traces are omitted, while most landscapes are in reality covered in traces of human endeavour, waste, or things that will someday be waste.