Gallery: Beautiful Glow-in-the-Dark Critters Born From Dumpster Diving
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"Pack Dogs" by LA sculptor Cynthia Minet is part of the "Gyre" exhibit now running at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. (Expand gallery to fullscreen for the best experience.)
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"Pack Dogs" by LA sculptor Cynthia Minet is part of the "Gyre" exhibit now running at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
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Minet built the dogs out of trash mostly found in dumpsters and laundromats. The sled is a repurposed rowboat.
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The colors of the dogs match Alaska's northern lights. Some 200 LEDs were used in all.
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Minet has been building glow-in-the-dark animals out of recycled materials since 2009, when she began her Unsustainable Creatures series.
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Why build animals out of the very thing that's them? “Plastic is already in the food chain,” Minet says. “Ultimately, we’ll all be partly plastic.”
