Art with a message: Angeles adding expired paint and shredded plastic wrappers into a painting at his studio in Plaridel, Bulacan province. — Reuters
WHEN Filipino artist Gilbert Angeles found out that his country was one of the world’s biggest contributors of plastic trash in the ocean, he felt compelled to take action.
He decided that the best way to show how discarded waste could be given a new life in a different medium was to incorporate materials ranging from shredded plastic to old paint and leftover construction wood in his art.
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