I was fortunate enough to receive accolade from Superfluous (Thursday) below, receiving 1st Runner Up at the Wallace Awards in 2013; resulting in a transformative 3 month residency at the Vermont Studio Centre.
During this time I was living in the downstairs of an old villa which bordered Basque Park in Auckland. There would frequently be items of flyaway rubbish which blew into our back garden, so I took to collecting them. Single use plastic bags were prolific, and being well aware of their environmental plague in New Zealand and abroad I wanted to engage in a conversation about it. I sought to lionise and single out these destructively mundane staples of modern life, to draw attention to their permanent yet delicate form, in an empty void of time and space.
Years on, with single use plastics banned they now stand as relics of the past.