Episode 8: One person's trash Can Be an Artist's Palette! Repurposing Waste into Beautiful Art

Send us Fan MailThe way plastic is managed globally is problematic. In some regions, less than 8% of plastics are actually recycled. The rest are sent to landfills to slowly break down into microplastics, or release chemicals into soils and watersheds. Natalya Khorover has embarked on using waste in her artwork. She has always been driven to be thrifty and using found materials in her art seemed like an obvious path.Links from the show:  Quilters Take a Moment: Quilt Alliance Eventbeyondplastics.orgNatalya KhoroverNatalya is an artist who uses repurposed materials and she helps other artists who struggle with knowing where to start using these materials to achieve their creative vision. She uses meditative hand stitching and mending of vintage linen, alongside her industrial sewing machine to stitch and collage layers of translucent single-use plastics which would otherwise contribute to litter pollution. The transformation she subjects them to makes these materials unrecognizable. You can find her here: Website: www.artbynatalya.comSocial Media handles: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbynatalya/Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NatalyaKhoroverArtistYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ0ZWXG0nIeMLXfOgau360QTwitter: https://twitter.com/artbynatalyaYou can find me, Bridget O'Flaherty - The Sustainable Quilter here:www.bridgetoflaherty.comInstagram: @thesustainablequilterFacebook: @thesustainablequilterYoutube: Bridget O'Flaherty The Sustainable QuilterMusic Credit: Thanks to Isaac Matthews for his incredible talent.You can find and follow him on Instagram @hesjustakid for more of his music. Support the show buy me a cup of tea!https://bridgetoflaherty.com/product/support-the-podcast/Support the showFollow Bridget O'Flaherty @bridgetoflahertycreates on Instagram and @bridgetoflahertycreates on Facebook. You can find her online at www.bridgetoflaherty.comThanks to Isaac Matthews for creating the music, follow him on Instagram @isaacmatthewsguitar