This is the piece I made for “Scavengers” a group show of art made or sourced via Scavenging. We were each given a case in which to install our work. So I made a custom piece that fit the space exactly.
”The increased adoption of found and salvaged materials in fine art is a response to the excesses and overproduction inherent to late-stage capitalism. As the global markets produce goods more cheaply and quickly, the value inherent in those things plummets resulting in a glut of garbage. Simultaneously, culture and media are experienced more and more in the realm of the digital, opening a space for artists to work with castoff materials to create something new and meaningful. One persons trash is another person's treasure, and as social media connects lofts in Manhattan to the alleys of Bangkok to the backwaters of Shenzhen, we see that cycle of production, waste, and reclamation in ever sharper resolution. Scavenging is an exercise of creative serendipity, and artists have an opportunity to show a drowning world a more resourceful way forward.”
