COLLAGE ART
Junk Mail Fish
Junk Mail Fish Panel One, 18 inches x 24 inches
Appeals, catalogs, and advertising are often the only “inhabitants” in our mailboxes.
Peoplekind seem bizarrely able to produce and disseminate unwanted materials. Advertisers and catalog companies go to great expense to shoot photographs of their products. Food stylists spend hours fussing over food stuffs and food stand-ins, such as glue, soap foam and glycerin, to create images of food so toothsome, we will want to consume them immediately.
Junk mail often has a shelf-life of a few days to a week. Can this throwaway paper possess a kind of beauty? How does it affect us, other creatures, and the Earth itself? How might it shape the future?
I take pictures from ads and catalogs and alter them to create fish and sea creatures, some of the animals most affected by pollution. My junk mail fish are frequently crafted from pictures of food or fashion, but any junk mail is game. Species of sea life found in our oceans and waterways are often very peculiar-looking, as a trip to an aquarium can attest. Probably somewhere, there are creatures that look eerily like my junk mail fish.
Peoplekind seem bizarrely able to produce and disseminate unwanted materials. Advertisers and catalog companies go to great expense to shoot photographs of their products. Food stylists spend hours fussing over food stuffs and food stand-ins, such as glue, soap foam and glycerin, to create images of food so toothsome, we will want to consume them immediately.
Junk mail often has a shelf-life of a few days to a week. Can this throwaway paper possess a kind of beauty? How does it affect us, other creatures, and the Earth itself? How might it shape the future?
I take pictures from ads and catalogs and alter them to create fish and sea creatures, some of the animals most affected by pollution. My junk mail fish are frequently crafted from pictures of food or fashion, but any junk mail is game. Species of sea life found in our oceans and waterways are often very peculiar-looking, as a trip to an aquarium can attest. Probably somewhere, there are creatures that look eerily like my junk mail fish.
Junk Mail Fish Panel Two, 18 inches x 24 inches
Junk Mail Fish Panel Three, 18 inches x 24 inches
Junk Mail Fish Detail One, 6 inches x 8 inches
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Junk Mail Fish Detail Two, 6 inches x 8 inches
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