Giant snails and colorful art take over Fort Worth Botanic Garden

A new pop art exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (FWBG) is already captivating people of all ages.

It features 80 larger-than-life animal sculptures that came all the way from Italy and were made from regenerated plastic.

“Cracking art is a way of embracing today, tomorrow, and the past. So, what they’ve done is the process of ‘cracking’ is what it’s called when oil is manufactured into synthetic things like plastics. That process is called cracking. So, they took that process of plastics being turned into art. We loved the company because it’s very on board with our own ideas about sustainability and not putting anything in the environment that’s going to damage it, so we love that they take plastic out of landfills and our waste sites and turn it into something amazing,” said George Cripps, director of events and exhibits…

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