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After years of mishaps, Dickie is now wreaking havoc on the environment – striking a disastrous deal with “Plastics Inc”, or shooting a kangaroo in a misguided attempt at cutting down on packaging waste.
“A lot of my work is very ambiguous,” De Poortere said. “Dickie is sometimes bad, sometimes he is good, sometimes he is a loser, sometimes he is really greedy, he is selfish, he uses people … People start reading it and they are laughing, but often they have to think twice, is this really happening?”
New Bloom/No Man is an Island’s Brian Hioe interviewed artists Kappa Tseng and Chiang Tao about their recent art project, “The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age”.
Belgian cartoon artist Pieter de Poortere is putting his best known comic book character, Dickie, to use in the fight against plastic.
Artist Tseng Yen-ting has created four music installations for the international Magnify Collective, which highlights problems caused by the petrochemical industry in Taiwan
An international collective of creators seeks to raise curiosity about the global plastics pollution crisis through art and storytelling.
Yen-Ting Tseng, Taiwanese creator, recently released a new work “The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age”
