My recent body of work explores the technique of stretching plastic trash over wooden bars. The structure allows me to play with transparency and layers in new ways, weaving images out of the most beautiful trash and various kinds of tape. It also lets me consider the works as potential “paintings”!
To activate the surfaces with light, the “paintings” are shown off the wall, ranging from slight angles to hanging in the center of a space. The work delivers constantly changing perspectives, depending on the approach and time of day.
Using symbolism, decoration, and light in my compositions, I explore how these visual languages have historically played a part in religion and spirituality.
I want to use the visual properties of plastic trash to examine its material meaning. Is value inherent in materials or is it merely an invention, the associated emotions easily replicated with surface tricks or other interventions?
