Art,

from a landfill,

 it all started like this, Nina Krinitsina, a pensioner from the Russian village of Makarye, around 850 kilometers east of Moscow, has a nephew, He would provide her with grid designs downloaded from the internet, and she would piece them together, to make mosaic patterns, She used peas at first, but quickly switched to a more suitable material – plastic bottle caps, She obviously needed quite a stock of caps of various colors to create all the designs, and she didn’t shy away from visiting the local landfill in search of them, photographs are video screengrabs,

“I don’t hide it, I go to the landfill in search of caps,” the artistically-inclined grandmother told Russian reporters. “Sometimes I find 100, 200 of them, other times, no more than 10. There are those who say that the village drunkard lives here, but as you can see, not a single wine cork or vodka bottle cap has been used.”

most of the artworks are depictions of characters from Soviet cartoons and Russian folktales, “It calms me down. Settles my nerves,” the artist said, adding that her home has become a local tourist attraction, with many families from the region bringing their children to marvel at her creations. Locals have even started donating plastic caps, but she still sources them herself as well,

“If I walk and see a bottle lying around and it is with a cap on it, then I unscrew the cap,” Nina Krinitsina said, so at least one part of throw away plastic is being reused, and rather colourfully as well.