Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, March 25th to March 30th
discarded mesh produce bags, steel wire
135 x 66cm; 127 x 64cm
rice bags, thread, mesh, steel wire
305 x 295cm
Senior undergraduate thesis project centered around the life cycle of materials — their before and after, who interacts with them and how. From being a material transformed into an object assigned with a purpose, to being ghosts of their former use. I examined how the materials properties align with their function — aeration, opacity, light sensitivity, durability, flexibilty — and stretched these variables, manipulating them with the natural tension of steel wire. All bags were procured through myself and my family, who saved them with the intention of reuse, for chicken coops, protecting garden flowers from unwanted visitors, and “just in case.”