Traces of the Real

Traces of the Real casts sculptures made from plastic waste as new celestial bodies in the universe, striving to create new possibilities and ways of seeing. Plastic waste - traces of consumerist urges - reflects both the world we live in and its influence on us. Photographs, particularly advertisements, create desire. Plastic packaging works in a similar way to seduce us. Packaging is like the proof of consumerism, proof that the advertisements were effective. Aware of this similarity between photographs and plastic, and of my competing desires to both consume and protect the planet, I explore the trappings of consumerism through the reflecting pool of plastic waste.