INFLUX
Double Dragon Drills
A multi artist installation experiential exhibition in the Biddeford mill complex
A multi artist installation experiential exhibition in the Biddeford mill complex
Influx was a multimedia art installation at the Pepperell Mill Campus in Biddeford, Maine. Area Artists placed works throughout the campus of the former textile mills, inside and outside.
My piece for this show is titled Double Dragon Drills.
Double Dragon Drills was an art installation about hard labor: collecting, cutting, connecting, weaving recycled plastic bags into fabric. Site specific. Repurposed art. Trash to Art.
Double Dragon Drills is an oxymoron. It is trash, yet it is art,. It is beautiful, yet it is trash. It is mundane, yet Sublime.
This is the site where the weavers worked. Women and children working hard labor. They made fabric called Drills and the biggest customer was China. Because of the language barrier the mill owner devised a symbol to be stamped on all bolts of cloth shipped to the Far East. This chop pictured two lions (double lions) here I've substituted dragons for lions. Fire breathing dragons like MERC our Infamous incinerator - gone now, happily. China was also once our biggest importer of recyclables... that too has ended.
What is the answer to all of this single-use plastic we consume and throw away? There is no "away" We have plastic Islands floating in our oceans, incinerated carcinogenic air pollution and mountains filled with plastic that will take 100 lifetimes to decompose. it is killing our wildlife and our ecosystems and we make more and more by the day.
.I don't have an answer but I'm trying to get there that's a pretty good freaking statement
"globally over 380 million metric tons of plastic are created annually. meanwhile an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans each year, which is like emptying a garbage truck of plastic into an ocean every minute"
Check out this Article about the show.
support for influx 2018 was provided by the kindling fund a grant program administered by space gallery as part of the Andy Warhol foundation for the Visual Arts Regional regranting Network.
My piece for this show is titled Double Dragon Drills.
Double Dragon Drills was an art installation about hard labor: collecting, cutting, connecting, weaving recycled plastic bags into fabric. Site specific. Repurposed art. Trash to Art.
Double Dragon Drills is an oxymoron. It is trash, yet it is art,. It is beautiful, yet it is trash. It is mundane, yet Sublime.
This is the site where the weavers worked. Women and children working hard labor. They made fabric called Drills and the biggest customer was China. Because of the language barrier the mill owner devised a symbol to be stamped on all bolts of cloth shipped to the Far East. This chop pictured two lions (double lions) here I've substituted dragons for lions. Fire breathing dragons like MERC our Infamous incinerator - gone now, happily. China was also once our biggest importer of recyclables... that too has ended.
What is the answer to all of this single-use plastic we consume and throw away? There is no "away" We have plastic Islands floating in our oceans, incinerated carcinogenic air pollution and mountains filled with plastic that will take 100 lifetimes to decompose. it is killing our wildlife and our ecosystems and we make more and more by the day.
.I don't have an answer but I'm trying to get there that's a pretty good freaking statement
"globally over 380 million metric tons of plastic are created annually. meanwhile an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans each year, which is like emptying a garbage truck of plastic into an ocean every minute"
Check out this Article about the show.
support for influx 2018 was provided by the kindling fund a grant program administered by space gallery as part of the Andy Warhol foundation for the Visual Arts Regional regranting Network.