Christmas waste

I walked around the high street this morning and couldn't resist checking one of those temporarily shops with Christmas crap. So depressing to see the cheapest of the cheapest stuff, made out of plastic and ending in the bin on January 2nd.
We have become so conditioned in making and buying things that are thrown away so easily. Symptoms of this disease:

1 It is crap and we subconsciously know it, but its cheap, so we buy it and tell ourselves its a steal and a money saver. It isn't when you throw it away every time and have to buy new every year.

2 The industry has moved itself the last 50 years to materials and production processes that are economically the cheapest. Although economically it is cheap, the real ecological price will still need to be paid. The question is, which generation is going to pay for it?

3 Because they make them technically crap, it wouldn't make any sense to spend a lot of time designing them. The design is crap too, which make these products very boring very fast, triggering us to throw it away.

4 There is no incentive to make long lasting products, because throwing away means buying again, which tells the industry that we like crap products and throw them away.

I just hope that I manage to make my Christmas decorations timeless and of such good quality that people want to keep them for many years to come! If not, half of most sculptures are from recycled 'products' from our food chain that will hopefully make people think about the above message!

Just finished this one: The Ghost of Christmas Future (Clay and acrylics on a sheep neck bone)