Showing posts with label plastics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plastics. Show all posts

Friday, November 12, 2010

dinoaur

THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU


He has saved you from the redundancy and tedium of conventional recycling and skipped all the erroneous steps - plastic, returned to its original jurrasic form.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Don't you know?




Haha. Heh.


I feel like it's redundant to explain text-based art, but maybe the sarcasm here isn't exactly obvious.
Working at Whole Foods, especially, I am growingly aware of how organics and recycling are new forms of conspicuous consumption. I feel that in a way, the eco-consciesness movement has lost a lot of heart, or more specifically, lost a lot of direction. The green movement can do a lot to better the world, indeed, but it realistically has become an extension of the market instead of a pragmatic solution to the very real problem of global pollution (plastics most especially).

Point being - the world will not be saved by artists ironing together plastic bags to make art, or recycling plastic cups, nor by buying new "green" reusable objects, or buying anything, really. Sustainability is not achievable through MORE consumption - a paradigm shift needs to take place in which individuals are aware of how to make what they need in order to live, so as to avoid the unnecessary production of useless disposable junk.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

artist assisting



Been working with John Mcenroe to fill ten thousand glass tubes with polyeurathane resin for an installation by Donald Lipski.


It has been pretty fucking awesome.