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Disney Goes Green

July 11, 2008

I was recently commissioned by curator Jon M. Gibson to create a piece for an exhibition at Disney’s Consumer Products headquarters. The only catch was that the piece had to celebrate the “iconography” of Disney while promoting a message of environmental sustainability in both it’s imagery AND medium. Since I couldn’t find a single place to buy soy-based paint (does this even exist? please email me if it does!) I decided to opt for the recycled materials route. Additionally, each artist was tasked with representing a division of consumer products. Appropriately, I was assigned to video games. Read the rest of this entry ?