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Els Otten'trashes to trashes, dust to dust: recycle art.'
Otten has always had an affinity for recycling. Not only in art, but in things such as cookery and fashion. In her experience the most surprising meals often arise from left-overs and the most extraordinary dresses originate from second-hand clothing from the rag-market. She thinks that the Catholic Church is master of recycling its relics.
In the past she has made herself reli-boxes, inspired by Joseph Cornell who she 'discovered' at the Guggenheim.
She believes that much is to be gained when recycling is paired with an abstemious lifestyle, but that it is not and end in itself. She thinks that the useless and heartless throwing away of materials is a sin-of-our-time. She feels that it is essential to her that she is challenged, so that there is a dialogue between herself and the material. She keeps herself open to the message entrusted in her by the subject matter.
She says: 'Through this initiative of World Art Delft a number of items, which I have cherished for a long time and which have travelled with me up till now, can have their finish hour: a second or maybe a fourth life.'
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