Electronic waste art: birds made of used electronics

Birds is a 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 m cube installation made from electronic waste, commissioned in 2020 by the Electronics Distributors Association. With this work we remind people to dispose of electronic waste responsibly: it is very important to protect nature from waste, and even more important to sort it properly. From small electronic devices – phones, shavers, headphones and their parts, children’s toys, cables – I formed birds that live in Lithuania and are easy to recognise: a pigeon, a crow, jackdaws, a sparrow and tits. For a whole six months the installation stood at the entrance to Vingis Park in Vilnius, and many people still remember seeing it there. It was later moved to the Energy and Technology Museum, and finally it lost its cube form: in 2022 I showed the birds in my solo exhibitions “Įsikūnijimas” and “Opinija”, perched on imagined tree trunks made of tin. This aesthetically appealing installation aims to catch people’s interest and remind them once more to consume responsibly.