Atlantis Cityscape Made From Old Plastic Bottles

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on December 7, 2008 at 12:46 pm


Artist Gayle Chong Kwan created this fantasy cityscape of the lost city of Atlantis using old plastic bottles and food packagings:

Plato in 360 BC described a city named Atlantis, whose beauty was beyond any comparison. Mythologized for its abundance of striking temples and stunning vegetation, the city was supposed to be buried under the sea following a catastrophic earthquake. An artist named Gayle Chong Kwan has now brought back the city in old plastic bottles.

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15 comments to "Atlantis Cityscape Made From Old Plastic Bottles"

  1. LK
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    I really like the look of the city from this vantage point. Some of the bottles look like milk jugs; pretty odd ones at that. Not like what we have in the U.S.

  2. Jayne
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Oooh, concentric circles, my Indiana Jones FoA geek-sense is tingling.

  3. ted
    December 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Is the artist a Grade 2 student? If so, she should be held back until she can actually make something a little better. Maybe a nice diorama.

    Otherwise, this is crap.

  4. chemmix
    December 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    seriously, galleries and their gimmicky bullshit anymore...oooh! Atlantis!! oooh, with plastic bottles!! AND?!?!?

  5. Evilbeagle
    December 8th, 2008 at 3:41 am

    I am going to build a tunnel through my house with old cereal boxes and pretend that's art too.

  6. someoneowned
    December 8th, 2008 at 4:46 am

    While not what I consider art, it is still creative. Don't squash creativity...before you know it, you may kill it.

  7. raina_c
    December 8th, 2008 at 5:11 am

    Oh, yeah right I would have guessed Atlantis LOL!!!

  8. Larfin Jackarse
    December 8th, 2008 at 6:02 am

    Fuck me, with all those placcie bottles around it reminds me of Melbourne.

  9. Rocky Rook
    December 8th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    Seems to me the artist is trying to make a statement about pollution.

  10. Sid Morrison
    December 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    hah hah, ted beat me to it again.

    While I've no doubt that somebody can come up with something creative from plastic rubbish, this isn't it.

    I think choosing Atlantis instead of a real city for which there is archeological evidence (which she would need to match) merely gave her a very escape route -- she didn't have to make it very realistic since no one can argue what Atlantis really looked like. Compare that with needing to duplicate the Pantheon, Circus Maximus, and Flavian Ampitheatre in Ancient Rome.

  11. sloane
    December 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    I wish I had time to be an artist!

  12. Scooter
    December 8th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    I'm gonna make Gondor out of junk mail.

  13. liphttam1
    December 8th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Don't realy get the atlantis bit. I just put it in a big fishtank and I would enjoy it more.

  14. Cade
    December 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    I saw a huge Christmas tree made of Heineken bottles last night, maybe that's why this isn't so impressive to me /:

  15. Larfin Jackarse
    December 9th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    @liphttam1

    Now that is an interesting thought.


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