ABSOLUTE GARBAGE

Absolute Garbage is a creative research project and ongoing meditation.

visualized through garbage-based SCULPTURAL work, ABSOLUTE garbage CONSIDERS THE ethics of creating and consuming in a world in [climate] Crisis.

collecting and disposing.

`amassing and decomposing.`

Sea Free Sea Glass

KINETIC SCULPTURE
**Meduim**: Single use glass vessels, plastic produce netting
**Status:** Collection and assembly

Garbage Isle

LIVING SCULPTURE
**Medium:** single-use styrofoam and paper packaging, reused wire, selvaged acrylic paint, natural fiber rope, found natural material
**Status:** experimental exposure to natural elements, awaiting spring planting

“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”

— Pete Seeger

World’s Largest Ball of Plarn

**Medium**: Plastic bags and packaging
**Status:** Ongoing growth

Plarn Macrame

PLANTERS + VESSELS
**Medium**: Plastic bag and packaging, found objects, leather scrap, metal findings, single-use glass vessels
**Status:** Design development, product testing

From philosopher E.M CIORAN:

“I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action—mother of all the vices—I am the cause of no one’s suffering. Harmless, without greed, and without enough energy or indecency to affront others, I leave the world as I found it. To take revenge presupposes a constant vigilance and a systematic mind, a costly continuity, whereas the indifference of forgiveness and contempt renders the hours pleasantly empty. All ethics represent a danger for goodness; only negligence rescues it. Having chosen the phlegm of the imbecile and the apathy of the angel, I have excluded myself from actions and, since goodness is incompatible with life, I have decomposed myself in order to be good.”