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(Favorite media include found photos, styrofoam and low-budget construction materials. The room is lined with a Cubist patchwork of different scraps of imitation wood-grain Formica and is hung with photographs, most of them showing the same pile of bulging green trash bags on a London curb from various angles. The theme-and-variation approach is also visible in a series of wall sculptures consisting of different cans of peas mounted on bases whose globular shapes and bright colors suggest oozing industrial waste. ..
(Favorite media include found photos, styrofoam and low-budget construction materials. The room is lined with a Cubist patchwork of different scraps of imitation wood-grain Formica and is hung with photographs, most of them showing the same pile of bulging green trash bags on a London curb from various angles. The theme-and-variation approach is also visible in a series of wall sculptures consisting of different cans of peas mounted on bases whose globular shapes and bright colors suggest oozing industrial waste. ..
The identity of the characters involved is revealed only through their gait, but could represent any human being, symbolizing the great variety of people in society. As randomly a hurricane hits, Harrison captured the detritus of society's consumerism and desensitvity towards it. This random treatment is further played out with the placement of the cans of greens, which are sporadically displayed throughout the installation, on colorful shaped blobs--humorous derivitives of the putrification of the garbage or relevant of industrial waste. Harrison defines these blobs as "pedestals" as if the cans standing on these bright growths could represent icons, signifying the essence and the result of consuming and disposal signified by the garbage bags. Rachel Harrison tagged this installation with its elaborate title, and literally illustrated its implicit absurdity by installing a piece of wood panelling, almost as a sash over the front panel of the window.
The identity of the characters involved is revealed only through their gait, but could represent any human being, symbolizing the great variety of people in society. As randomly a hurricane hits, Harrison captured the detritus of society's consumerism and desensitvity towards it. This random treatment is further played out with the placement of the cans of greens, which are sporadically displayed throughout the installation, on colorful shaped blobs--humorous derivitives of the putrification of the garbage or relevant of industrial waste. Harrison defines these blobs as "pedestals" as if the cans standing on these bright growths could represent icons, signifying the essence and the result of consuming and disposal signified by the garbage bags. Rachel Harrison tagged this installation with its elaborate title, and literally illustrated its implicit absurdity by installing a piece of wood panelling, almost as a sash over the front panel of the window.
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A site I really like: http://www.geocities.com/broadway/stage/1052/mh1.htm
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