"This project allows the transformation of trash from coasts globally. While trash can look dirty and unappealing when lying on the beach, I feel inspired to look at the wood, plastic, and glass in a new way. Users of this platform may now go to the beach, pick up trash, wash it off, and upload a picture of the trash on a white sheet of paper. The objects collected from the beach can now be viewed in a new way - as a tool to create art. This platform will inspire a community of beach-goers to make something beautiful from something diminishing our beaches. This platform will also create a global community. When an object is loaded to the site, an artist can request the trash as a tool to make his or her own art. In addition, items made from trash posted into this site, will be transformed into beautiful jewellery."
Molly Mandel, Omtiamt User
about
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Omtiamt is an online ecological marketplace that aims to provide designers, from all fields, a new source of one-off materials and inspirations. We create a worldwide sourcing community that hand picks local coastal waste, which we curate and present as unique, raw treasures.