Mbongeni Buthelezi: The South African artist turning plastic into portraits yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(CNN) While other artists might use watercolors or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg.
The community of Kwa - Thema in the East of Johannesburg, Springs, was formed in 1951 as a result of the apartheid government forcibly moving black South Africans who lived in Payneville to Kwa-Thema, as they were considered too close to the Johannesburg CBD as delineated by the 1950 Group Areas Act. loadshedding but our mountains and valleys are still on. The fynbos still rustles in the wind and the butterflies and bees still visit their flowers.
Mbongeni Buthelezi takes recycling to the extreme. He "paints" with plastic. For his work, he uses plastic waste, cuts it into pieces and applies it to canvas with a heat gun, creating surfaces with changing colors.