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plastic in paradisum is a creative interrogation of the social processes that confer value on the objects that surround us. The project is a digital, interactive archive of plastic objects I found washed up on the beach at Dead Horse Bay.
I have long thought that if we respect plastic’s history as a petroleum substance formed across the vastness of geologic time and its future as a material bound to outlive us and most if not all conceivable future generations, then we might treat it with the greatest respect instead of as mere junk.
Bonnie McDonald, Sacred Waste: Performance Pedagogy, Plastic Shamanism, and Ten Thousand Pieces of Trash
We are the garbage, the waste, we make it and dump it, to be separated from it is a cancer causing delusion…we cannot separate ourselves, clean and perfect, from the trash we dump out back into the can. Clean is a vision of internal trash, not a mere separation.
Gerald Vizenor, “Landfill Meditation”
the website: http://cargocollective.com/plastic-in-paradisum
the 3D gallery: https://sketchfab.com/baricks/collections/plastic-in-paradisum
email me: baricks@gmail.com
Further reading:
Jane Bennet, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Max Liboiron, https://discardstudies.com/
Bonnie McDonald, Sacred Waste: Performance Pedagogy, Plastic Shamanism, and Ten Thousand Pieces of Trash
Susan Signe Morrison, The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter
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