WASTE NOT WANT NOT
An installation of over 100 porcelain pieces represents examples of the single use plastic items thrown away from one household in two weeks. The golden illuminated pieces highlight that only ~10% of the plastic produced is recycled.
Plastic, a revolutionary product of modernity, has in 40 short years become a global pollution problem with predictions that, by 2050, plastic in the ocean will outweigh the fish.
Re-creating the plastic in fine porcelain, the work proposes that if plastic were valued as highly as ceramics, perhaps attitudes to the resource and the consequence of disposal would be reconsidered.
Proverb: ‘Waste Not Want Not’ - If you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need. (Oxford Languages Dictionary)
This work was the awarded the CAAWA Members' Selective Exhibition 2022 : Emerging Artist Award.
Plastic, a revolutionary product of modernity, has in 40 short years become a global pollution problem with predictions that, by 2050, plastic in the ocean will outweigh the fish.
Re-creating the plastic in fine porcelain, the work proposes that if plastic were valued as highly as ceramics, perhaps attitudes to the resource and the consequence of disposal would be reconsidered.
Proverb: ‘Waste Not Want Not’ - If you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need. (Oxford Languages Dictionary)
This work was the awarded the CAAWA Members' Selective Exhibition 2022 : Emerging Artist Award.
Lyn Nixon, Waste Not Want Not, 2022 Porcelain