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playing with plastics to unlearn cultures of violence
(lessons in non-duality)
@kris.russo @krisrusso.art

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This house is on fire
Plastic wycinanki
2022

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𝐌𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚.
Most systems collect waste. Very few convert it into local production.
In Naivasha, mixed plastic from the dump is sorted, shredded, and pressed into products that are already being used and sold. This is small-scale infrastructure that works.
If you want to build this, start here:
• Learn the sorting process https://lnkd.in/gagcRHdv
• Build a low-cost heat press https://lnkd.in/gKCYxe-Y
• Make roof panels https://lnkd.in/gcbe64yH
• Produce durable trash bins https://lnkd.in/g2n4DJY6
• Create small sellable products https://lnkd.in/g3m8tdzU

This is a decentralized production system.
Waste becomes input. Products create revenue. The model scales by replication.

If you are building in this space, connect with us.
wastefree23@gmail.com

#CircularEconomy #PlasticRecycling #WasteManagement #RecyclingBusiness #Decentralization WasteToValue

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in loving memory of the incomparable T-Shine🕊️ you can see and hear him here, playing with my artwork. “We throw up our prayers to God,” 2021.

Nobody shines like T-Shine @official.tshine_baba twale baba❣️

#plastics #wycinanie✂️ #shadowplay

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one of my best moments of 2025 was ocean kayaking for the first time with @buyelwa and hanging out with two whales… Everything🩵

not to be hyperbolic, but one of the best moments of my life. For what it’s worth, I pray the new year brings us all more moments of reverence for this topsy-turvy thing we call life on Earth🩵

Ikhandlela by @philadlozi—song of the year!

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On Plastics, 2019

this video was made at a plastics factory in Lagos during a residency with @arthouse_foundation

#artintheageofplastics #plasticplay #videoart

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“Little bird, what is the price of oaknuts in Guayinga?”Yesterday was the solstice. Winter solstice 2020, I made this altar in my garage: buckets, candles, clay birds, berries, acorns, plastic on cement. The altar was a map of the surrounding mountainscapes. This was my way to inhabit land, time, and history. To hold attention for the things that exceed me and often my understanding. A humble offering of my earnest confusion dedicated to my family, my ancestors, the ancestors of this land, the Tongva and Payomkawichum.

Polish solstice rituals, the Land Back movement, Buddhist ontologies and California Funk Art inform the work as tools for attention, reflection, and ritual. The globalized, ancestral, and spiritual influences structure how the work exists in time and how it interacts with history.

A monk asked Seigen, “What is the essence of Buddhism?”
Seigen said, “What is the price of rice in Ryōyô?”

#potentialhistory #ritualizedassemblage #makingthetensionofsettlerpresencevisible

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we are God’s plastic

from my ongoing project “post-service” (free drawings, sent through the mail)

#postcards #makeartfreeagain #outofthemudgrowsthelotus

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(don’t worry) if there’s a hell below we’re already there, 2020

exhibition-view from “acts of enclosure, Love Divine, and the muscle memory of hope” - Lagos, Nigeria 2021 - dedicated to the memory of one of my great inspirations in this life @picturekodak

the title is paraphrased from the song “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going to Go” by Curtis Mayfield

#griefislove #loveisdivine #plasticplay

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Mass-produced craft tools of American material culture; crayons, markers, glue sticks, construction paper, scissors; are arranged in woven baskets on white cotton tablecloths. Visitors are invited to make postcards, write love letters, and/or exchange beaded friendship bracelets. The setup contrasts what’s commonplace in 21st century American life with what we associate with traditional craft forms, exploring memory, erasure and the blurry line between craft and contemporary art.

I ask: what counts as art? Where does it happen? How does care move through (and sometimes despite) timelines? Part offering. Part play. Part archive.

Set in Sonoma, California, a place layered with (relatively recent) histories of European settlement and agriculture, this event documents present-day American material culture through the gestures it invites.

Thank you to Samantha @film__sam sam , Cat @huntergatherersf , @abbotspassage, @gundlach_bundschu and my loving mama who made this possible♾️

“The Post Service”, a site-specific participatory art installation/assemblage, July 2025

#frontiermelancholiaintechnicolor #plasticplay #artasoffering

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the abyss (2022)

fused plastics collage, 30 x 18 cm

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offspring of waters - apām-napāt (2019)

fused pure water sachets, nylon bags collage (fused with bag sealer), LED panel, plexiglass, wood frame

68 x 68 cm

#apamnapat #naphtha #mixedmedia

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love dogs (2021)

fused plastics collage, ~18 x 28cm

for sale or trade

#plasticbagart #stainedplastic #lovedogsbyrumi

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