Urban Tumbleweed – Next Nature’s Trash

Yesterday’s leaves are being replaced by today’s garbage. This garbage is turning into a natural feature of our environment. Urban garbage, as it’s called, is becoming our next nature. It is invading our streets like a modern tumbleweed, effectively creating a phenomenon known as Urban Tumbleweed.

This Urban Tumbleweed creates a footprint of a city. To illustrate this footprint, Urban Tumbleweeds were constructed using genuine trash from the streets of both Düsseldorf and Eindhoven. Though the results appear similar, they offer a lot of detail when being observed from a closer perspective.

The question remains: what would Urban Tumbleweed from another continent look like?

Created by: Jan van der Asdonk, Guus Baggermans and Brian Garret Schuur.

Related: Trash People, American self-portrait, Portraits of American Mass Consumption.