Many artists around the globe have chosen art and grabbing everyone’s attention to the ever-rising issue of climate change.
To join the list, we have another artist, 23-year-old Oscar Olivares from Venezuela. He has been making headlines recently with his gigantic mural made from bottle caps.
In an interview with boredpanda, he stated “Besides the techniques, I have always used my art to be happy and to express what I feel and think,” explained the inspiration behind his art.point 268 |
“I am deeply happy when I am drawing or painting and I want the people that look at my work to feel the same happiness that I feel during the creative process.point 130 | To be honest, in the end, I didn’t decide to become a visual artist—it is just what I am and if I wouldn’t have become an artist, I would have been a different person.point 270 |
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Oscar Olivares, in collaboration with the local environmental organization OkoSpiri and Movimiento en la Arquitectura para el Futuro (eng. Movement in Architecture for the Future), has made a giant mural with recycled plastic bottle caps and container lids.
His project took 2.5 months to plaster over 200,000 various plastic caps on a wall of a small square, Plaza Escalona in El Hatillo Municipality, Caracas. The mural is a total of 45 meters in length, measuring 3.5 meters at its shortest point and 7.25 meters at its highest point.
“The initiative came from ONG OkoSpiri—they invited me to participate as the artist of the project of creating the first eco-mural of Venezuela using just bottle cap,” elaborated the young artist. “At first, it sounds impossible, but I did some research and dove deep into pointillism and color. It helped me understand that it was not only possible to make a good mural using caps, but also something hard yet impressive and thus worth it.”
The output is an outstanding colorful composition of macaws in their natural habitat. Besides the majestic birds, the mural includes sunflowers, mountains from the El Ávila National Park, and buildings sinking in the green meadows under a starlit sky.
The mural also aims to revitalize this specific area of El Hatillo that has become abandoned and has become somewhat of a landfill.
“To be honest, the most challenging part was something that you don’t see in the mural—the preparation. Specifically, it was to collect the caps of the necessary colors, especially the yellow ones. As I say, this is not art made by an artist, but art made by the simple people completely by pure awareness,” explained Oscar.
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