Plasticola

Plasticola is an illuminated interactive wace sculpture detecting encraoching viewers and responding with light changing from blue to green to yellow to orange to red to violet. Viewers either retreat apologetically or embrace confrontation with the skittish sculptures and approach them as a piece of art to be examined and understood. Animating my sculptures makes them seem alive, so how they are made should make sense within the imaginary world from which they come. I use poignant repurposed materials and obsolete technology to seduce my viewer into a familiar fantasy while illuminating social choices. Upon inspection, these flowers are built from discarded plastic water bottles and shopping bags, alluding to the human tendency to transform, and ultimately destroy nature with progress. Our actions have profound affect on the world around us, but often go unnoticed for better and for worse. The Plastic Garden is a transformative environment that through action and reaction, material and allusion and fantasy and reality, ask the viewer to question their actions in the past, present and future. I worked with student Koret Scholar at Sonoma State University.