Aurora Robson: Human Nature Walk
My practice is a form of serious play driven by the widespread perception that plastic is disposable when it is precisely the opposite. Although plastic debris is an environmentally destructive material, it has vast potential in art applications. In my practice, I turn plastic into art, taking it out of the waste stream and turning its longevity into an asset.
Over the past two decades, I have developed many techniques that highlight plastic鈥檚 potential as a robust artistic medium. The possibilities for manipulating the material are nearly endless鈥攊t can be bent, welded, sewn, and more. I lean into my discomfort with the evidence that petroleum products are wreaking havoc on the environment by working with debris. I play with used plastic objects, including bottles, barrels, buckets, caps, and other ephemera, to create hope for a better, sustainable future.
I believe our responsibility as humans is to honor, study, and maintain the complex balance of life on earth, and to tinker with the systems we have put into place so that they serve life, rather than destroy it. While my work is a call to action to break our negative behavioral patterns and to change attitudes toward perceived disposability, it is also a love poem dedicated to the intersection of nature and culture, with the aim of softening the edges between.
My practice is a form of serious play driven by the widespread perception that plastic is disposable when it is precisely the opposite. Although plastic debris is an environmentally destructive material, it has vast potential in art applications. In my practice, I turn plastic into art, taking it out of the waste stream and turning its longevity into an asset.
Over the past two decades, I have developed many techniques that highlight plastic鈥檚 potential as a robust artistic medium. The possibilities for manipulating the material are nearly endless鈥攊t can be bent, welded, sewn, and more. I lean into my discomfort with the evidence that petroleum products are wreaking havoc on the environment by working with debris. I play with used plastic objects, including bottles, barrels, buckets, caps, and other ephemera, to create hope for a better, sustainable future.
I believe our responsibility as humans is to honor, study, and maintain the complex balance of life on earth, and to tinker with the systems we have put into place so that they serve life, rather than destroy it. While my work is a call to action to break our negative behavioral patterns and to change attitudes toward perceived disposability, it is also a love poem dedicated to the intersection of nature and culture, with the aim of softening the edges between.
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