VIRTUAL ART EXHIBITION
BY ARMINA FINE ARTS
"THE WASTE"
Welcome to "The Waste" exhibition!
"The Waste” exhibition presents an evocative collection of 3D mixed media artworks that turn ordinary, everyday waste materials into stunning visual narratives.
The materials you see in these artworks right now will still persist on our planet and continue rotting in landfills long after you have passed away.
Some of these materials can take hundreds of years to decompose, during which time they continue to leach harmful substances into the soil and water, disrupting ecosystems, while the toxins from some packaging materials contaminate the food in them, affecting human health and biodiversity.
"Gold on Gold, Part 1"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (paper, foil, paint)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Every year approximately 100,000 marine mammals and over 1 million seabirds are killed by ocean plastic.
According to scientific estimations, over 90% of all seabirds have plastic in their stomachs and sea turtles can have up to 74% of their diets composed of ocean plastics. 100% of baby sea turtles have plastics in their stomachs.
With so many animals mistaking plastic items and particles for food, or becoming entangled in them, the impact of plastic waste on marine life has become a global crisis.
"Gold on Gold, Part 2"
Year: 2024
Media: mixed media (paper, plastic, paint)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Plastic straws are one of the top 10 items found during ocean coastline cleanup. According to some scientific estimates 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the coastlines around the world.
When the heart-breaking video of the sea turtle with a straw stuck in his nose went viral on the internet, it helped to launch the anti-plastic-straw movement, and a lot of companies and states banned plastic straws. However, plastic straws make up around 1% of plastic ocean waste. And there is more that needs to be done
"Gold on Gold, Part 3"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (cardboard, glossy paper)
Artwork size: 50cm (W) x 68cm (H) x 4cm (D)
You can help to reduce plastic waste by:
· Always carrying a small re-usable shopping bag in your pocket or bag
· Instead of packaged items, purchasing items by weight whenever possible
· Use your own multi-use containers for any takeaway food or drink, instead of plastic bags and containers
· Instead of buying plastic bottle water buy water filters for your home
· Using hygiene and cleaning products that come with minimum packaging, like soap bars instead of shower gels in plastic bottles
· Recycling as much as possible
"Gold on White, Part 1"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (paper, plastic)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 4cm (D)
"Brown, Part 1"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (paper, fabric, wood)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 4cm (D)
"Brown, Part 2"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (paper, fabric ribbons)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 4cm (D)
You can help to reduce paper and cardboard waste by:
· Purchasing products at shops, in person, rather than ordering them online
· Recycling as much as possible
· Going digital wherever possible and avoiding printed invoices and receipts
· Using items that have recyclable paper packaging, even if they maybe are less visually attractive than the shiny glossy paper packaging that can not be recycled
· Use your own multi-use containers for any takeaway food or drink instead of paper bags and containers
"White on White, Part 1"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (plastic, paper)
Artwork size: 13cm (W) x 13cm (H) x 1cm (D)
Every year 92 million tons of textile waste is generated globally and because of fast fashion industry it is continuously growing. Only less than 1% of textile waste is being recycled. Textile production emits more CO2 into the atmosphere than international flights.
You can help to reduce textile waste by:
· Rethinking if you really need that new item you would like to buy first, and then buying it if it is necessary
· Reducing the number of unnecessary items that you own by donating or selling them
· Reusing the items that you already own, instead of purchasing new ones
· Repairing broken or damaged items, instead of discarding them and purchasing new ones.
· Recycling as much as possible, by following the local recycling rules.
"White on White, Part 2"
Year: 2025
Media: mixed media (cotton, paper)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Every year more than 53 million tons of e-waste is generated globally and it is expected to reach 74 million tons by 2030, due to high use of technology.
"White on Black and White, Part 1"
Year: 2024
Media: mixed media (Styrofoam, fabric)
Artwork size: 50cm (W) x 50cm (H) x 6cm (D)
You can help to reduce global e-waste by:
· Buying only what you need and opting for multifunctional gadgets, rather than multiple separate ones.
· Not “running after” the new version of the same gadget that you already have, just because it just came out.
· By choose gadgets from durable and reliable brands that will serve you longer.
· Taking proper care of your devices.
· Repairing devices, instead of discarding them and purchasing a new one.
· Disposing devices in a proper manner, according to local regulations.
"Black on Black, Part 1"
Year: 2023
Media: mixed media (paper, polish, wood)
Artwork size: 13cm (W) x 13cm (H) x 6cm (D)
"Rosi"
Year: 2025
Media: mixed media (fabric ribbon, foil, polish, paper)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
She stood at the edge of a world yet unseen. She could almost feel the weight of the promises she was about to make, but they were not burdens; they were wings. Her mind danced with images of laughter, shared silences, and hands held tightly and lovingly through the shifting seasons. She didn’t know exactly what awaited, but somehow, she trusted that it would be enough. With each passing moment, she felt the threads of her life pulling gently together. The vows of lovers, when spoken, would be like soft whispers on the wind, fragile but strong, carrying promises of more than she could ever put into words. She was ready, not for what she knew, but for the beautiful mystery of everything yet to come.
"Betty"
Year: 2025
Media: mixed media (paper, glossy paper)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
She opens the window halfway and listens, hoping for a reason. Sounds filter in - distant cars, a barking dog, some laughter too far away to touch. She thinks maybe if she could hold a sound, she could follow it out. But her head is busy turning invisible thoughts repeatedly, trying to find a narrative that makes sense. Negative thoughts repeat over and over again, not loud, just constant - like water dripping from a faucet that no one dares to fix.
"Vincent"
Year: 2025
Media: mixed media (paper, wire)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
He stood at the edge of the river, where the water no longer whispered but muttered in low, heavy breaths. The trees leaned inward, brittle with silence, and he felt the hum of something breaking beneath the surface of the world—something slow and irreversible. His thoughts moved like fog through a forest, heavy with the weight of plastics and dust, satellites and soil. The news echoed in her mind like distant thunder: glaciers giving up their ghost, the sky growing thick with forgotten fires, fish disappearing into memory. He wondered if the earth was growing tired of being forgiven.
There was a soft grief in her chest, not loud, but constant—an ache that language couldn't shape. He saw the shadows of children running through dry fields, laughter mingling with ash, futures drawn in smoke. He began to dream in colors she couldn’t name, shades of warning, tones of retreat.
"Gizella"
Year: 2024
Media: mixed media (fabric, paper)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Life that was taken away too early! Life that once made sense. A house full of things that once made sense - his coat still hanging by the door, the dent in his armchair. Not anymore. Every room still listens for his footsteps.
Mornings arrive like questions she can't answer. The coffee tastes wrong, too bitter or too thin, depending on the day. The newspaper headlines blur into nonsense, all noise without a voice.
She waits - for what, she isn’t sure. Not for him; she knows better. But maybe for the moment when the world will lean in close and remind her how to be someone without him.
"Robert"
Year: 2024
Media: mixed media (paper, cardboard)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
He moved through the day with the quiet precision of someone counting things that couldn’t be seen—moments, margins, the narrowing distance between needs and means. The world around him spun in signs and silence: rising prices, flickering lights, the soft ache in his hands from doing too much and still not enough. He measured his worth not in what he had, but in what he feared he could not give.
At night, when the house breathed steadily and small bodies slept in their warm corners, he stared at the ceiling and bartered with imagined futures. Dreams came to him in muted colors—never loud, never wild, always tempered by the pale hum of cost. Still, he rose each morning, folding worry into his coat pocket like a note no one else could read.
"Julia"
Year: 2024
Media: mixed media (paper, foil, plastic net, gemstones)
Artwork size: 30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 3cm (D)
Her heels clicked softly on the wet pavement, the night behind her still humming somewhere deep in her chest. Glitter clung to her collarbones like fading stars, and the taste of cheap liquor and louder laughter still lingered on her lips. She had danced like they did, posed for photos with a practiced tilt of the chin, nodded through inside jokes she didn’t know the roots of. The music had been too loud to hear her own thoughts, which felt like a blessing at the time. Now the morning silence wrapped around her like a question mark. Friendship promises and a lot of photos were made that night. She scrolled through blurry photos, half-smiling at versions of herself that didn’t feel quite real. Maybe this was what belonging looked like - aching feet and smear of mascara under your eyes.
