South African artist Mbongeni Buthelezi creates beautiful, giant portraits. The material? He uses plastic melted onto canvas.
His lines are often think and heavy — the colors are vibrant.
And that plastic he uses is discarded trash.
Buthelezi collects plastic bags from the streets around his Johannesburg studio.
He calls his art: "plastic fantastic."
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