Modern Midden
Dimensions:
75 x 75 x 10cm
Medium:
Plastic bread bags, wire, aluminium cray pot base
Artist:
De Lamby Wulff
Artist Statement:
First Nation languages have no word for rubbish. Historically, over many generations the shells and bones that remained after a meal, were discarded onto middens. A closed organic loop.
In stark contrast, Modern Midden is a collection of manufactured plastic waste that chokes and distorts the natural environment. The only similarity between the two, is they both represent what remains once food is removed.
Plastic bread bags as a medium, contrast the organic packaging of a shell or husk.
The cray-pot base symbolises and pre-empts, if nothing changes, a time when modern man will harvest only plastic from our oceans.
