Sculpture titled "The Flow of Life" by Francesca Busca, Original Artwork, Aluminium

The Flow of Life (2023) Sculpture by Francesca Busca

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Sculpture, Aluminium / Mosaic on Other substrate

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One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 59.1in, Width 374in / 50.00 kg
Framing This artwork is not framed
Fit for outdoor? Yes, This artwork can be displayed outdoor
Categories Sculptures under $20,000 Abstract Colorful

First of its kind installation of "The Flow of Life", 9.5 metres made 100% with waste, commission for the new chapel of Ada Lovelace CoE secondary school, open to all faiths.

The left side is devoted to self reflection, meditation and floor space for rugs. As such, it is be primarily based on calm, introspective colours, such as blues and greens. As we move towards the right, we come closer to the benches and the altar, where vibrant reds and gold triumph to recall purity and light. As a finishing touch, 3 accents of gold to represent the holy trinity, and finally gold as a main hue at the end, to add a frame of warm light around the pulpit.

The Flow of Life is a depiction of what all faiths have in common: both the belief that life does not end with death but merely flows into a different stage, and the present moment, when we are indeed all sharing the miracle of life. Finally, it is a celebration of all our diversities, which just like hues and shades, once together create the rich canvas of life.

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Francesca Busca

United Kingdom

As an Eco-artivist, ‘Rubbish artist’ and mosaicist, Francesca pioneers sustainable art by creating her artworks entirely out of waste (her 'trashure'). Torn between optimism[...]

As an Eco-artivist, ‘Rubbish artist’ and mosaicist, Francesca pioneers sustainable art by creating her artworks entirely out of waste (her 'trashure').

Torn between optimism and surrender, Francesca is haunted by the idea of mankind’s imminent self-destruction. Yet she believes in a future for humanity of resourceful innovation through re-thinking and reducing. Her artworks are drenched in hope: every tessera she creates is in itself a protest against our disposable lifestyle, providing a different perspective on rubbish. In her world rubbish acquires new value and meanings, and becomes the undisputed protagonist of her artworks, as fun and beautiful a Cinderella as she can master it to be: from waste to wonder, the more beautiful the artworks, the clearer the message.

Gesamtkunstwerk, her eco-artivism encompasses every aspect of her life: a vegan raising vegans, using 100% renewable energy, wearing second-hand clothes, being plastic free wherever possible, seeking local food and saving water, growing a vegetable and wildlife garden, not flying for the past 4 years (…), she strives to live as sustainably as possible.

Francesca graduated with distinction in Mosaic and Fine Arts at the London School of Mosaic in 2019, where she also lectured the Fabrication module in 2021/22. She exhibited in over 100 venues internationally, was published in over 60 articles and textbooks internationally, and won over 2 dozen awards internationally.

She is the founder of the Payment in Kind(ness)© initiative, whereby she accepts eco-friendly actions as payment toward her artwork, and of ArtforTrash©, whereby she uses the clients’ own waste to create artwork for residential, institutional and corporate settings internationally.

Francesca runs pro bono art projects with schools, individuals and organisations on eco-awareness and sustainability. To name a few, she collaborated with Living Streets, Salon Sustainability, Fernando Montaño and a few primary and secondary schools in London. Her longest collaboration (March 2018 - April 2019) was “A Breath of Fresh Air” with the London International Gallery of Children’s Art (LIGCA), which involved 5 schools in London and Delhi and culminated in an exhibition at the Nehru Centre.

She is currently collaborating with the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice on Project Maelstrom, whereby she will create a permanent installation in loco during the Venice Boat show 2024, by using both the waste recovered from the sea through their initiatives and that from their labs.

In short, Francesca's quest is to turn the unwanted into desirable, shame into wonder, the superfluous into essential, and provoke real Change.