Handicraft Design - recycled material

Handicraft is a manual skill that can clearly shows the artist personalities. Produce a good handicraft with recycled materials not only requires a great crafting skill but also a great mind with a good idea and concept. Korean artist - Ji Yong Ho had created a lot of amazing animals sculpture by using unwanted tires. He said: ''It will always be an awesome work if the right materials work in the hand of right artist.'' His concept of creating this sculpture is mutation - mutants. He makes me think of using tires as material to do the 3D cube. =D  

shark

rhino

The reason of this Korean artist using tire to sculpt is because of the rubber is flexible to present the skin and muscle. Beside than steel that most of artist used to present power and toughness, rubber can also showed the strength and toughness even. These creature looks more realistic by using tires than steel.The most awesome things for me of this tires sculpture is how he cut and joint the tire in such a perfect manners. Perhaps there is material beside than tire in the the sculpture, like using steel to do the main frame structure then only stick the tire strips. 

Reference:

Jessie.T (2008) Ji Yong Ho.

Retrived  July 24, 2012 from http://www.thememagazine.com/stories/ji-yong-ho/