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Litter Landscapes is a series of screen prints on trash collected from New York City sidewalks, particularly in my neighborhood where there aren’t many public garbage cans. I print drawings I’ve made of plants with melancholic names—Blue Violets and Bleeding Hearts, Depressed Clearweed and Weeping Brown Sedge—on this ordinary debris, matching the color of the plant to the color of the trash. The forms and labels of my simplified horticultural drawings repeat on and integrate with the surface design of dirty cans, candy wrappers, parking tickets, and plastic bags. I further transform these abandoned objects by sealing up each piece in a box frame, like a botanical biohazard or a plant pressed by a car’s tire.
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Litter Landscapes | 2024 | screen prints on found objects | dimensions variable
