Lanto Azasime, Ghana’s best artist using discarded materials for art
Lanto Azasime, Ghana’s best artist using discarded materials for art is making great progress. Art is a mindset, a skill, and a science that needs to be appreciated, and Lanto Azasime Ghana’s budding artist using discarded materials, has released another masterpiece called “Boa Me Na Me Mmoa Wo” which translates into Help Let Me Help You in English.
The new intriguing masterpiece is part of the “Adeɛ a Ɛbɛyɛ Yie Nsɛi Da” (Who will work will never get spoilt) collection, which stands for cooperation, signifies, “Help me, and I’ll help you.”
The artwork is pushing all Africans, wherever they may be to help each other and reciprocate support towards building synergies, which will help the continent paint a better outlook of itself and transform the continent.
Being a master of art who is able to tap into the energies of so-called waste and discarded materials, Lanto Azasime, Ghana’s budding artist, sees good in discarded materials and uses them to portray contemporary stories and solutions needed in Ghana, Africa, and beyond.
In a post on his official Facebook page, Lanto Azasime indicated that his new “Boa Me Na Me Mmoa Wo” piece of art indicated that waste is gold and that the broken pieces of our past can be artistically assembled into a masterpiece.
“The artist firmly believes that waste is gold and that the broken pieces of our past can be artistically assembled into a masterpiece.”
His artworks and paintings are putting smiles and life into creating a safer, healthier, and more respected environment where waste becomes useful artwork instead of polluting the environment.
“While doing so, we provide assistance by removing waste from the environment and performing surgical procedures to revive and restore value to them. They provide us with value and income in exchange, which goes a long way towards making the world a better place than when we first arrived. The journey and life of a human are similar.” He stated this in his post.
Using discarded materials for art
Over the past two years, the artist and his team have dedicated their artistic practice and processes to the repurposing of discarded materials into meaningful art pieces that educate, inspire, and question humanity’s contribution towards a Greener and more sustainable environment.
Ghana and Africa need to rally behind artists like Lanto Azasime of Ghana and support them with the needed opportunities to convert usable wastes such as eggshells and plastics into great artworks for important public places such as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, and other such places to boost art tourism. Let’s tell our stories through the power of artworks and art pieces The Ghana Tourism Authority must also begin to see the need to collaborate with such excellent young artists to project Ghana’s culture and history through artworks such as these.
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