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"The work presented takes it's theme, (and materials) from the throw-away, cast-off culture we see becoming ever more apparent: processed food wrapping, plastic toys, construction materials, packaging, and other miscellaneous mass-produced toxic junk that seems more and more to surround and engulf us; junk food, junk gadgets, cast off and dumped, wherever.

The initial concern was the growing colonies of cast-off people living in the streets, under the freeways, in abandoned buildings; survivors of our throw-away wars, collapsed families and communities, the addiction / medication industries, and other traumatizing by-products of a hierarchical, debt / consumption, treadmill culture that has become grotesquely competitive, disconnecting, and merciless.

One way or another, like Nature itself—sprouting through cracks and chinks, climbing across ruins and dumps, people at the bottom survive too.

So this work sought to consider our anthropological trash heap as a telling barometer of where advancement, and progress, and growth, might actually trend alongside record-breaking financial markets and luxury towers... the thrown-away that's less and less hidden, and more and more in plain sight; barren white cubes and pristine interiors notwithstanding."

— David Rohn