Plastic packaging seems to breed like rabbits.
Rubbish Rabbits is a collection of pearls in the shape of life sized rabbits. Utilizing the non-recyclable single-use packaging, straws, and utensils as a plastic (irritant) core. Then wrapped in reused aluminum foil to hand mold life size armatures of adult and baby rabbits. Each Rubbish Rabbit is then coated by hand with a weatherproof concrete sculpting medium to allow the sculptures to be able to live outdoors year round. Some rabbits have shiny non-recyclable “glitter” mixed into the outer coating mimicking mother of pearl (nacre).
Plastic Pearl Project
As the primary homemaker and caretaker of my family I engage with most of the food and household packaging. Frustrated with the overwhelming amount of non-recyclable packaging and inspired by nature, at the end of 2019, I decided to act like a mollusk, taking an agitator - non-recyclable packaging that passes through my home and turning it into pearls.
"IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT PEARLS ARE THE RESULT OF PARASITES OR BITS OF GRIT THAT IRRITATE A BIVALVE'S SOFT INNARDS; THE MOLLUSC ENVELOPS THESE FOREIGN BODIES IN LAYERS OF SMOOTH NACRE TO PROTECT ITSELF (A FACT THAT GEM MERCHANTS RARELY ADMIT)."
- HELEN SCALES "SPIRALS IN TIME"