Loom & Doom
2020
Media: Trash bags, produce bags, grocery bags, yarn, carpet warp
I’ve been thinking a lot about Theodor Adorno's Cultural Criticism and Society (1949) and his assertion that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" and wondering what the contemporary version is--to make art after capitalism is barbaric? After neoliberalism? After climate change?
There is much art I love for aesthetic reasons, but I am most inspired by activists using art to push ideas into the public consciousness and work towards equitable communities.
Globalized capitalism has encouraged human production/consumption and subsequent waste practices that threaten the environments we live in. We are particularly drawn to the convenience and price of plastic materials, which we use and dispose of at an alarming rate: landfills are constantly filling to capacity, and a lack of a comprehensive recycling plan means many of our discarded goods inhabit our waterways and green spaces.
This piece is at the nexus of aesthetics, anthropological inquiry of environmental ruin at human hands, and hope for socio-environmental justice. The weaving is made of a yarn warp, with plastic bags and recycled bits of string acting as the weft.
Media: Trash bags, produce bags, grocery bags, yarn, carpet warp
I’ve been thinking a lot about Theodor Adorno's Cultural Criticism and Society (1949) and his assertion that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" and wondering what the contemporary version is--to make art after capitalism is barbaric? After neoliberalism? After climate change?
There is much art I love for aesthetic reasons, but I am most inspired by activists using art to push ideas into the public consciousness and work towards equitable communities.
Globalized capitalism has encouraged human production/consumption and subsequent waste practices that threaten the environments we live in. We are particularly drawn to the convenience and price of plastic materials, which we use and dispose of at an alarming rate: landfills are constantly filling to capacity, and a lack of a comprehensive recycling plan means many of our discarded goods inhabit our waterways and green spaces.
This piece is at the nexus of aesthetics, anthropological inquiry of environmental ruin at human hands, and hope for socio-environmental justice. The weaving is made of a yarn warp, with plastic bags and recycled bits of string acting as the weft.
