Clearly We Have a Problem
as of Dec 2020
as of Sept 2021
summer 2023
Gazing Ball
as of Oct 2021
Party Pit
as of Nov 2021
as of October 2022
as of October 2022
Pearls made of categorized non-recyclable packaging and coated with epoxy.
clear = Clearly we Have a Problem
shiny packaging = Gazing Ball
party - holiday - celebrations - candy = Party Pit
meat packaging = Meatball
cheese packaging = Cheeseball
nut and seed packaging = This is Nuts
🦪⚪️ 2023 Honesty Update: All pearls expect "Clearly we Have a Problem" were sent to the landfill. 🗑🐌
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"
2021 Funding made possible by the Puffin Foundation.
project developed during Artist Residency in Motherhood