PARTY'S OVER

or Six hundred years after the purchase impulse, what strange ghosts remain

Made from plastic foam balls, pulverized iron (ii,iii) oxide, wood ash, recycled paintbrush fibres, natural charcoal, concrete, salt, epoxy resin, oil, acrylic, damar, uv archival spray.

Another installment in my plastic foam ball paintings--this iteration featuring glittering blue miniature disco balls. I wanted to explore the post-apocalyptic earth that remains thousands of years after our collective extinction--a burnt out, comet-like shell of a planet robbed of her atmosphere and choked by rivers of congealing pollution. I built a heavy shell of wood ash and natural charcoal which I coated with shadowy, obliterating layers of powdered black iron magnetite. Lakes of micaceous resin coagulated in lifeless pools, the joyful tinkling of the plastic the only reminder of the gluttonous carnival of consumption that raged here millenia before. A sci-fi imagining of where our love of plastics will take us. I do love a party, though.

48” x 48”
Available - $5500