Part of the Naga above the Siem Reap river (Photo: The Rubbish Project)
Volunteers helping to build the Naga (Photo: The Rubbish Project)
Volunteers helping to build the Naga (Photo: The Rubbish Project)
Volunteers at work (Photo: The Rubbish Project)By Marie Giffard
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
On Saturday 22 March, a Naga made out of rubbish will rise from the water in Siem Reap to celebrate the World Water Day and to denounce pollution in Cambodia.
For the occasion of the World Water Day, on 22 March 2008, The Rubbish Project, in partnership with the environmental group World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will build a 200-meter long snake made out of locally produced rattan, collected plastic material and other materials collected from garbage cans. The concept was centered around a Naga, a mythical water snake, in order to sensitize the population on the state of water streams and rivers in the kingdom. “The Naga plays a central role in the Cambodian culture, it is also present in religion as well, when the Naga saved Buddha by lifting him up from the flooding water while he was meditating,” Seckon, one of the organizers, explained.
The Naga should rise from the Siem Reap river, next the Angkor temples. The Rubbish Project was set up in 2006 by artists Fleur Smith and Leang Seckon, to attract the public attention, through arts, on environmental issues.
“We hope that people, when they see this, understand that this snake was made out of rubbish and water pollution, and that, if this persists, the Naga and all that can be found in the river will disappear,” the artist insists. “WWF also hopes to show the efficiency of rattan as a flexible construction material,” Dr. Koy Ra, the director of Rattan Project at the WWF Cambodia, declared.
Additional information can be found at:
http://www.therubbishproject.blogspot.com
For the occasion of the World Water Day, on 22 March 2008, The Rubbish Project, in partnership with the environmental group World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will build a 200-meter long snake made out of locally produced rattan, collected plastic material and other materials collected from garbage cans. The concept was centered around a Naga, a mythical water snake, in order to sensitize the population on the state of water streams and rivers in the kingdom. “The Naga plays a central role in the Cambodian culture, it is also present in religion as well, when the Naga saved Buddha by lifting him up from the flooding water while he was meditating,” Seckon, one of the organizers, explained.
The Naga should rise from the Siem Reap river, next the Angkor temples. The Rubbish Project was set up in 2006 by artists Fleur Smith and Leang Seckon, to attract the public attention, through arts, on environmental issues.
“We hope that people, when they see this, understand that this snake was made out of rubbish and water pollution, and that, if this persists, the Naga and all that can be found in the river will disappear,” the artist insists. “WWF also hopes to show the efficiency of rattan as a flexible construction material,” Dr. Koy Ra, the director of Rattan Project at the WWF Cambodia, declared.
Additional information can be found at:
http://www.therubbishproject.blogspot.com
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