An art installation using recycled plastics that is inspired by a Portuguese expression is on display throughout the summer in Atlanta.
Artist Hyland Mather recently created what is described by Alpla Group as a large-scale art piece that's now at Colony Square area in Midtown Atlanta. The piece is located at the Grove, a park at the intersection of 14th and Juniper Streets.
Mather gathered material in Atlanta to go along with plastics collected by Alpla employees, the company said.
Called "Nice Time," the art borrows from the Portuguese expression, "If you don't have dogs, you have to hunt with cats," said Alpla, which makes plastic packaging and recycles plastics.
The piece "captures the ingenuity and thrift that farmers use in getting a job done even when answers aren't easy to find," the company explained, and is "designed to inspire communities to see a world in which the full value of all objects is utilized."
Alpla calls the interactive art an extension of the company's Plastic Reimagined initiative to help consumers reduce plastic pollution and create a cleaner world.
"This is a Nice Time for us all to think about ways in which we can help draw attention to and make a statement about improving the world we live in through small individual efforts, like forming good recycling habits, repurposing materials, and tasking ourselves with finding ways to proceed optimistically in a world that can feel sinister and cynical," Mather said in a statement.
