Junk Art: Magic Box
2014
Materials: thrown away fruit nets, plastic bags, stryofoam box, clear tape, glue gun
It is no coincidence that our garbage reveals a lot about ourselves: it serves as a mirror of our society in that we can find all kinds of disposable material that our society produces ad infinitum. This work started as a question, an experiment of sorts: what if all these miscellaneous things we throw away without another thought took a recognizably human form? Or if human beings were treated as disposable material? Or the stuff we throw away gathered and took on a shape and life of its own, and started bursting out of our garbage cans?
The work shows a small box with legs sticking out, as if somebody stuffed a human body into it like garbage. The box used was originally an ice cream cake box from Baskin Robbins. Fruit nets were used to imitate the muscle fibers of human legs. The decoration on the top of the box was made by stuffing plastic bags inside a fluorescent light bulb found in the junkyard, and melting what's inside with a torch.
