Dear friends, I would like to invite you to be part of a of a game of art, recycling and patience, three essential ways of facing life….
The de Young Museum has selected me for a one-month residency (December 2010), which I have entitled “Beautiful Trash”. It is based on a series of trips I made to the Pacific coasts of Peru, Mexico and California, where I’ve photographed plastic garbage waste living on the shores, which we “casually” leave there, as if the edge of the ocean were our garbage dump. She (the plastic garbage) stays still, staring at the horizon, waiting for the next wave, so she can climb upon her and sail away with the tide so that she can finally be taken to that plastic island that some call the “Garbage Patch” and others call the “Trash Vortex”, this continent of plastic that grows bigger each day and is now twice the size of Texas, or the size of Peru.(!)
Thinking about the island and of my “eco-vacations” was born the idea of constructing a series of objects using plastic as a medium, and this is where you come in….
I have some “beautiful” plastic boxes. They come in 3 sizes, small, medium and large. The idea is to fill them with more plastic, in a predetermined time (it could range from 1-5 weeks).
At this point I would like to ask you (to first think about whether or not you would like to be involved in this project and then…) to fill a plastic box (the size of the box would depend on you). You can see examples of these boxes in this
LINK HERE. You can fill them with small, medium or large PLASTIC objects, which will be used to build part of the plastic art at the de Young Museum and for projects in the future.
If after having read this far, you are still interested in participating, the only thing you must do is to continue reading for the following “rules”:
1- All of the plastic objects must be CLEAN. It can be new or used, but it must be clean. (This means, no food remains or liquid of any kind- please look at the examples in
this LINK)
2- All the plastic you put in his box must NOT be bought for the sole purpose of being in the box. In other words, it must have been “organically yours” (at one point or another).
3- All of the plastic that goes into these boxes may NOT be claimed in return (not even for sentimental reasons) because they will be part of a larger work of art that cannot be disassembled.
4- Everyone’s Plastic box will be photographed at the moment of delivery to the artist, so you can arrange it “to make it look pretty” or you can casually fill the box as you please. (The photos will not be used as part of the exhibit but they will be used for a future book project in which we will record everything with great nostalgia).
Once you are done filling your plastic box with plastic, I would love for you to contact me via e-mail with this great news, so that we can coordinate a way for us to come collect your Beautiful Trash.
All of this process is part of the “Game with the boxes of Beautiful Trash” and makes you (chosen ones?!) key players in helping to build the December project and what is to come next….
So please let me know if you are in and if you don’t mind you will appear in the acknowledgements section for the show as collaborators of “Beautiful Trash”. Just pick a box and Email us your preference to:
trashbeautifultrash@gmail.com
Also- I have some great news- One my dearest friends on this planet, Dánica Conneely will be helping me as the Production Manager for “Beautiful Trash”!
Gracias amigos, Thank you for reading this far and for your consideration.
-paz y poesia-
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