(HL-예술/취미) San Francisco Artists Make Art from Trash

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Trash and garbage are other words for waste – things that people no longer want or need. In San Francisco, they are also words for art. A local recycling company, called Recology, created a program to give artists the opportunity to re-use unwanted objects. Artists are paid to work for four months on transforming things like old tires, toys and paint. Ma Li is one of the artists at the center. She is working on a project that includes plastic bottles, cardboard tubes and cloth. Ma Li is turning them into a moving sculpture with stars, flowing air and dancers. Ms. Li says she learned recycling from her parents while growing up in China in the 1980s. It was a time when the country was poorer and more concerned about saving money than it is today.
* unwanted = 원치 않는, 반갑지 않은/ transform = 변형시키다, 완전히 바꿔 놓다/ cardboard tube = 마분지통/ sculpture = 조각품; 조각, 조소 

San Francisco artist Michael Arcega works with recycled wood and old leather belts, all saved from the garbage. “My project is based on pseudo-anthropological research on the people of the Nacirema.” Michael Arcega explains that “Nacirema” is “American” spelled backwards. His artwork shows what he says is the wasteful culture of the American people. Still, he says looking through the trash is not easy. It is hard to separate what is useful and what is really garbage.
* leather belt = 가죽 벨트/ pseudo = 허위의, 가짜의/ anthropological = 인류학의/ backwards = 뒤로, 거꾸로, 반대 방향으로/ wasteful = 낭비적인(하는)

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