MFA Group Show -

Another MFA group show at the Anna Leonowens Gallery just wrapped up.  For my contribution I installed the Hobbyist Brand Collect-o-Cube alongside 25 limited edition posters and an edition of 40 instruction manuals that detail how a person could go about constructing their own version of the product. 
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Collect-o-Cube is a large, handmade cube that contains approximately one year’s worth of the plastic that has cycled through my household and studio.  Every collected piece has been meticulously washed, dried, and individually crushed, amassing to become the embodiment of an absurd and futile practice that disrupts the normal flow of disposable materials, resisting the logic of capitalism.  It is a compression of space and time, a monument to consumerism, a metric by which to measure my complicity in an economic system that makes waste inevitable, and a self-portrait created from the physical evidence of my consumption.