An Environmental art installation that speaks of the impact our wasteful ways is impacting our planet, specifically with relationship to nature. From our waste emerges a new variety of plants, mutated testaments to our destruction, their morphed survival.
As a sustainable artist, I try to encourages others to follow the mantra: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Refuse. My story is about the damage of single use plastic and straws. I started thinking about the recycling amount I produce in my household. Then I multiplied it by my neighborhood of 479 souls, wow, then to the population of my city 133 thousand people. My mind couldn't wrap itself around the realization of our country's waste. Most of us are not even keyed into a consciousness of what we do. We are oblivious to the poison we live in. My past approach to art-making was to make change, to suggest a better way to live. For this exhibition, I focused on what nature might look like in the future, adapting and living with waste. In my sculptures I have crossbred plastic, paper, metals with salvaged and harvested organic matters into another suggested life form, a place where nature intersects with human waste. Without realizing it we are mutating with the myriad of chemicals we are surrounded by in product leaching and pollutants in everything that surround us. Our mutation has been registered in developmental and physiological changes, cancer, thyroid, immune system, digestive issues and so much more, it is now rare to find a human without issues.
