Basic concept (is the GOP listening?) – art should inspire.  Down in Miami, The Cracking Art Group and Italy’s Galleria Ca d’Oro have collaborated on a series of art installations that feature 45 pink snails created from recycled plastic.  Their latest exhibit is designed to get the conversation started about recycling.  The snails will take up residency at a variety of Miami locations starting today, through January 3rd.

Part of the global REgeneration Art Project, the snails are the latest massive installation (and first in the U.S.) of animal figures created by a group of European artists known as the Cracking Art Group.

The group has been working since its inception in 1983 to impact the art world and society through their focus on strong social and environmental issues communicated by their “revolutionary and innovative use of different plastic materials that evoke a strict relationship between natural life and artificial reality.”

via: SUNfiltered photos: The Cracking Art Group