Dear visitors,
To answer your most immediate question:
the material of this work is PLA, a type of bioplastic.
It comes from failed 3D prints, mostly in the form of loose strands. The sort of thing a printer produces when things go wrong.
Except things didn't exactly go wrong. I made them go wrong.
Over and over again, through various forms of intervention. Each time, a different pile of mess. There's a short reel on my
Instagram showing how I did it.
I collected these strands and reshaped them with heat and my hands, softening, stretching, connecting, and layering them into the piece in front of you.
But why?
To see how far things could go from what they were supposed to be.
To create as much distance as possible between their almost embarrassingly insignificant starting points—things people would throw away without a second thought—and what they could potentially become.
The accumulation helps.
The scale helps.
Being here helps.
And ultimately, your attention helps.
Please, take a look.