RECLAIMING GARBAGE
I’ve always been interested in creating sculptures from consumer packaging (see the McPalaces above). In the 1980s I went through a brief period of making political statements out of supermarket packages and smuggling them in to stores and leaving them on the shelves.
These sculptures incorporate discarded items, a used tire from an SUV and two-liter soda bottles, into landscapes. So much human refuse circles the world that we can’t escape it. With these sculptures I imagine actively integrating what we now consider waste back into our lives.
Aspects of this seem inevitable if humans endure on this Earth.
Reclaiming Garbage
