Disposable
Morphological alterations of a single-use plastic bag
"Disposable", an ongoing project, is my refusal to accept the "single-use" narrative of modern capitalism.
The project began in my cellar when I found an old plastic bag filled with rusty bent nails. While I discarded the contents, I kept the bag—an act of defiance against the cycle of waste.
This work is fuelled by a deep-seated frustration with the global proliferation of plastic. Over decades of travel across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe, I have seen these bags everywhere: clogging rivers and seas, gathered by the wind in deserts and mountains, and littering cities, slums, and refugee camps.
Using this specific found object as a site of resistance, I perform a series of morphological alterations, repeatedly transforming the same bag into various sculptural forms.
Through photography, I document and expose these transformations, recontextualising a symbol of pollution as an object of beauty.
By giving this single bag a permanent "second life," I aim to challenge our relationship with the environment and the production imperatives of a throwaway society.
