Bricolage is a word that has been bouncing around in my mind for some time now. I wrote an article at EcoStreet a few months ago about an artist called Cynthia Korzekwa who uses the junk that she comes across as a housewife to make art, which is when I discovered the concept of bricolage. Bricolage is, in essence, a form of recycling. It is defined in Wikipedia as “the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things which happen to be available”. And as we humans are so very talented as creating rubbish, rubbish is a thing that happens to be available. Heaps of it.

If you aren’t the creative sort yourself, support bricoleurs and the environment by buying art made of recycled odds ‘n ends.