I hear you; indeed I thought about the colors in “watercolors” before I posted, and decided to let it go. Not sure where they get those colors, but if they are Legal Department Approved “Non-toxic”, then probably no cadmium – only coal tar derivatives, food coloring, I suppose.
Okay new plan:
Green is not just what you avoid using.
It’s what you actively do to remedy problems.
Litter. Garbage. These are your Active Measures green media.
I once went through a phase for a few weeks (this was in Minneapolis) where I obsessed about picking up pencils that I found on the street, and giving them new life, I thought about documenting them on a website, a kind of monument to lost pencils.
Well, that phase passed, but then I found a small brightly colored plastic monkey with a broken arm in the street, and I thought, I will obsessively collect found broken toys for a while, give them new life, maybe train the monkey to take over some of the pencil-documenting scutwork for me. But no other toys presented themselves (I’m pretty sure the monkey is recuperating in one of my memento creches), so that phase passed.
Have a look at “Wasteland”, an art gallery in the Twin Cities. The owner
makes art from found waste objects, some quite charming – long-stemmed roses constructed from broken red tail-light cowlings.
