For this assignment, I first thought about the places in my life and how they impact me. I thought about my house in New Paltz. This is the first year I've lived off campus, and it greatly differs from the way I've lived on campus in a dorm. The amount of trash that accumulates in a house of 6 girls is astonishing, and recycling has become more challenging because of the way our landlord has set up our garbage pickup. I constantly find glass jars, plastic bottles, and cans dispersed throughout our trash bags. My housemates and I usually collect as much as we can and transport them to a recycling facility in town, but it seems that can only accomplish so much.
I want to challenge myself artistically by accumulating these discarded bottles and cans and perhaps create a sculpture that has a proactive message about the importance of recycling. I rarely work in 3-d, so this can be an exciting chance to experiment with new materials.
Artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster use trash to create indiscernible sculptures that cast surprising shadows.
These pieces are inspiring and fascinating and I'd love to explore the idea of perception and recycled materials.
Their work is brilliant. It offers a great direction for you to go in based on your concept of place. Do you plan to make shadow sculptures like theirs? Maybe to polish the idea you could have the recycling message come through in the shadow (if that's not what you're planning on doing already :)
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