STYROCUMULUS // Collegiate School
November 2021-February 2022
Utilizing post-consumer synthetic waste as material, Styrocumulus is a space to envision possible experiences of the future, to have conversations, and to collectively imagine new answers. The materials used in this installation are byproducts of my career teaching and working with glass as an art form. I see synthetic material is a portrait of our severance from nature. We have become an invasive species, bringing with us “disposable,” never-decomposing materials we refuse to halt making in the name of comfort and convenience. I implicate myself as a part of this in using only waste generated by my own life and lifestyle. As a non-material, a non-thing, a thing that can only be told what to be; plastics and styrofoam can only exist because we made it. I imagine things that will exist after humans- if we are slowly becoming made of plastic, what will the hybrid plastic organisms of the future be? Will we create simulations of the natural experiences of days past, using artificial means? I encourage the viewer to spend some time “cloudwatching” in this space, spending time with these ideas.