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CONSUMER culture in the 20th/21st centuries has embraced the plastic bag as a disposable object – our environment is sadly compromised. Our local community is part of a sophisticated first world country, and yet still we seem to ignore this indiscriminate use and disposal of the bags I have been exploring ways in which they can be recycled using a wearable vernacular – in exhibitions including Greensmith ( Brisbane and California ), String Fundamentals ( Hong Kong ), and conducting workshops ( in FNQ ) on the making of wearable objects using plastic bags. I also use recycled fishing line in my work, another potentially environmentally dangerous material that is found in abundance along the coastline and on the reef. Reusing a few plastic bags will not solve the problem, but hopefully alert people to think before they take their groceries home in another contribution to an environmental disaster.
Image courtesy Henrik Kerstens
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Neckpiece - recycled supermarket plastic bags, found and dyed fishing line
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Big brooch - plastic checkout bags, found and dyed fishing line, wax thread
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Armpiece - recycled supermarket plastic bags, found and dyed fishing line, recycled 18 ct. rose gold
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Brooches - recycled market bags, recycled sterling silver
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Pin - recycled market bags, recycled sterling silver
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Brooch: recycled plastic bags, brooch clasp
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Brooch: Red blooms
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Earrings - reused argentium silver, recycled plastic bags
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Earrings - reused argentium silver, plastic bags
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Earrings - reused argentium and sterling silver, plastic bags
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Neckpiece - recycled plastic bag, recycled sterling silver, recycled and reused sterling silver brooch
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Neckpiece - recycled plastic bag, recycled sterling silver, recycled and reused sterling silver brooch
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Neckpiece: recycled plastic bags, recycled acupuncture needle covers, reused sterling silver beads.
CONSUMER culture in the 20th/21st centuries has embraced the plastic bag as a disposable object – our environment is sadly compromised. Our local community is part of a sophisticated first world country, and yet still we seem to ignore this indiscriminate use and disposal of the bags I have been exploring ways in which they can be recycled using a wearable vernacular – in exhibitions including Greensmith ( Brisbane and California ), String Fundamentals ( Hong Kong ), and conducting workshops ( in FNQ ) on the making of wearable objects using plastic bags. I also use recycled fishing line in my work, another potentially environmentally dangerous material that is found in abundance along the coastline and on the reef. Reusing a few plastic bags will not solve the problem, but hopefully alert people to think before they take their groceries home in another contribution to an environmental disaster.Image courtesy Henrik Kerstens