Semester 3 - Fall 2019 Texas Tech University
Artist Statement
Anthropocene
In the last 5 years, scientists have discovered two new classes of rocks near Hawaii called plastiglomerats and pyroplastics. All the littered plastics caught in the ocean have been absorbed by active volcanoes and reformed into new rock.
Just as this material has re-identified itself, my work uses found materials in an evidentiary way to defamiliarize and recontextualize them. Through this, I question their functionality and our dependence on them.
Anthropocene
In the last 5 years, scientists have discovered two new classes of rocks near Hawaii called plastiglomerats and pyroplastics. All the littered plastics caught in the ocean have been absorbed by active volcanoes and reformed into new rock.
Just as this material has re-identified itself, my work uses found materials in an evidentiary way to defamiliarize and recontextualize them. Through this, I question their functionality and our dependence on them.
