Plastic

The Plastic Series presents four familiar objects: plastic chair, clogs, beer crate, rain boots. All four are made of cheap injection-molded plastic, yet each occupies a completely different social space. The series exposes these differences and shows how status codes are constructed while the material itself remains trivial.

 

The reconceptive approach brings into view what is usually overlooked. Nothing is reinvented, everything is reframed. The objects keep their form, but their relation to one another shifts. Four plastic things become an image about class, use value, and the strange tendency to assign social weight to something that is, in the end, just molded plastic.