Do you think of your transformation of these materials as operating in a way that redeems their toxic presence on the earth, or the other way around to where your usage of them is a new way of highlighting that toxic wastefulness? I’m thinking of the way the pretty glitter and humor operated in your anti-W portraits; the pink glitter didn’t make me like Cheney, it served to highlight his evil through irony—would you say these works do the same for environmental issues, or…? YES!! ha ha hahahaha.. YES! We are going down! Lets go out in glory, I say! Lets make this garbage, that consists of these forms that are functionally beautiful, fantastic! It is ironic to me, that we can be of such high intelligence and creative abilities, yet be so damned stupid when it comes to the sheer preservation of our species and planet. I cannot reconcile this dilemma and so I throw up my hands and I will make art about it. I will document our moment in time. How important is it to you to have the original materials be recognizable versus disguised/mysterious? I was never interested in knowing what the forms held or where they came from. I looked at each form for its aesthetic quality and got into combining the forms to create more complex pieces. There are pieces that one would never have any idea of their original function, what thing it held. The MacBook Pro packing material comes to mind. You can see that in Layered Rectangles . It is the piece of the sculpture on the left side, in the back. It is made up of this repetitive, circular pattern that is so complex and intricate. It casts gorgeous shadows and reflects light in the most ethereal way. I could never have created this form. It’s almost the reverse of form following function!
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