Using 200,000 Recycled Bottle Caps This Artist Created Gigantic Mural
John V.
Posted On March 8, 2020
Street artist Oscar Olivares from Venezuela collaborated with OkoSpiri to create a masterpiece with gigantic mural.
This 23-year old has been making headlines recently in media with his gigantic mural made from bottle caps.
“Besides the techniques, I have always used my art to be happy and to express what I feel and think,” explained the inspiration behind his art. “I am deeply happy when I am drawing or painting and I want the people that look at my work to feel the same happiness that I feel during the creative process. To be honest, at the end, I didn’t make the decision to become a visual artist—it is just what I am and if I wouldn’t have become an artist, I would have been a totally different person.”, Olivares told BoredPanda.
Using recycled plastic bottle caps and container lids, Oscar has created a gigantic mural in collaboration with the local environmental organization OkoSpiri and Movimiento en la Arquitectura para el Futuro (eng. Movement in Architecture for the Future).
It take him 2,5 months to plaster over 200,000 various plastic caps on a wall of a small square, Plaza Escalona in El Hatillo Municipality, Caracas. The mural extends a total of 45 meters in length, measuring 3.5 meters at its shortest point and 7.25 meters at its highest point.
“The initiative came from ONG OkoSpiri—they invited me to participate as the artist of the project of creating the first eco-mural of Venezuela using just bottle cap,” elaborated the young artist. “At first, it sounds impossible, but I did some research and dove deep into pointillism and color. It helped me understand that it was not only possible to make a good mural using caps, but also something hard yet impressive and thus worth it.”
Check out this masterpiece:
