Commissioned to make work for Centre for Alternative Materials and Remanufacturing Technologies (CALMARE) using recycled materials. |
Article in Exeter University magazine
I have used discarded aluminium drinks cans to make my work, which have been manipulated into an origami shape (the Fortune Teller). These multiple shapes have been assembled using string to make a 3d structure. The drinks cans are packaging designed to seduce. The cans eventual state of dejection, its albeit brief history as receptacle and the variety of surface graphics appeal to me. I prefer where possible to use the throwaway object, life's detritus. I make work that reflects craft traditions like knitting and sewing. My work is processed based using ritualised methods to articulate ideas involving decay, renewal, consumption, repetition and change.
When I think of global industry I think of quotes from Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World” “The more stitches, the less riches.” And “Ending is better than mending”. Production and consumption values need to change because the earth’s resources are not limitless.
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