{"id":31566,"date":"2023-01-15T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/ghana-turning-clothing-waste-into-artworks-2"},"modified":"2023-01-15T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T09:52:09","slug":"ghana-turning-clothing-waste-into-artworks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-turning-clothing-waste-into-artworks-2","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Turning clothing waste into artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WIYedaAXbeU<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghana: Turning clothing waste into artworks\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WIYedaAXbeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Children playing with toy trucks or women singing. The artworks on Michael&#8217;s canvas were once dresses, shirts or skirts. The young man has expertly cut the colourful fabrics.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With fashion off-cuts from tailoring shops or second-hand markets, the young contemporary artist based in Accra, has made his newest textile art piece.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This fabric [Editor&#8217;s note: pointing at a large piece of five men wearing matching trousers]; I sourced them from Kantamanto and then this one is from a friend that sews, and this piece is from Woodin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Using textile waste is not just about finding cheap materials &#8211; Gah also has environmental reasons:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fashion sense is growing faster nowadays, so they tend to leave the old fashion down, so I go for them to create my artworks. I don&#8217;t want them to end up in the seas, in the gutters, to choke them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gha&#8217;s ecological mindset has inspired others. Franklin Maduka Izechukwu, one of his suppliers, was intrigued when Gha first approached him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they come for [textile waste], we don&#8217;t know what they use it to do, it could be that it causes a lot of environmental damage, right?&#8221;, the CEO of Fenz Fashion Limited, a fashion design shop in Accra confesses.<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;[Gah] comes for it, he uses them to make arts, to make pieces, which is actually good and contributing a lot to our environment, which is very key, and I think it has also opened up my mind to a new line of business to be more environmentally conscious, because we have to be eco-friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Textile waste problem<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One of West Africa&#8217;s hub for second-hand clothing is Accra. Kantamanto market receives items of clothing from Western countries. However, Ghana struggles to deal with textile waste.<\/p>\n<p>According to environmental experts the country has a problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every week, two million (items of) second-hand clothing are imported,&#8221; Yaw Akwaa Lartey, an environmental health researcher details. &#8220;Investigations revealed that 40 percent of these items turn into waste and are dumped at the landfill sites and other crude or unauthorized refuse dumps across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gah collects several large bags of textiles each week.<\/p>\n<p>His works have been exhibited and sold in both local and foreign markets; as works to turn the tide on Ghana&#8217;s textile waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WIYedaAXbeU Children playing with toy trucks or women singing. 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