DIVERTED DESTRUCTION 12: THE TECHNOLOGY EDITION
As we continue to develop technologies, we create more garbage as the older technology becomes obsolete, finally making its way to the garbage heap.
We are a throwaway society!
The mission of this show, is to keep our garbage ON the land IN lieu of in it, where it ultimately decays into our soil and water.
Our plastics become tiny fragments that the fish eat, we eat the fish.
Our drugs dissolve via our toilets but find their way back to our water source, we become resistant to their affects.
Our food disposal creates Greenhouse gas emissions, we are heating up the planet.
“In the U.S. alone, an estimated 251 million tons of consumer solid waste is generated annually but less than a third is recycled or composted. And as much as 40 percent of this waste comes from construction projects, which produce a surplus of unused building materials, according to Earth911”
You can make all the difference just by thinking about where you can best service our planet when you walk to the trash by asking yourself these questions:
Can I reuse this?
If not can I recycle it?
Have I washed and dried this piece of plastic packaging before putting it in the recycler?
Do I know someone else who can reuse this?
Do I know an artist or art teacher that can use this as an art material?
Is this food compostable?
Can I put it in the green bin or compost?
The installation in The Projects Room includes all the objects I have collected over the past year and have had to consider their disposal. I display my refuse as pleasing, aesthetically organized merchandise, so the viewer is inspired to regard my throwaways as useful and appealing objects.
I depend on artists to create with them to inform us of their relevance. I invite you to take what you would like and what inspires you to repurpose an object and give it a new life as a piece of assemblage-found object art.
Liz Gordon
Curator