The Finder
Recycled Polyethylene, Recycled Polyvinyl Chloride, Urethane, Playground Slides found around Tucson, Steel, Oak from Carlton, OSB that Darrin's neighbor wanted to get rid of, Acrylic Paint, MDF from Dumpster between Grad Lab and neighboring apartment complex, Scrap Rebar I kept from a job in Portland, Seaweed from Packaged Seaweed Snacks, Petroleum Jelly, Insulation Foam, Sports Court Tiles won on Ebay, Silicone, Palo Verde Branches, a Shark Tooth from trip to Cape Hatteras, Plastic Straws from breakroom, Plastic Handle from Mariel, Chicken Wire, Image of Hourglass Nebula, Drink Umbrella from Liam, Aloe Verde plant found in landscaper's debris pile by my old apartment, Bristlecone Pine Tree Seeds, Glass Vial with Cork Stopper, Preexisting Spiderweb, Nike Running Shoes found under a bush on Park and Helen, Penn Tennis Balls that Withers didn't use anymore, Rebar Stands, a Conus Textile Shell from Etsy, Zip Tie, a Serenity Prayer Gold Chain Necklace found on Hollywood Blvd, Driftwood from San Juan Island trip with Lyndi, Fragments of a Dinosaur Bone (Fossil Unknown) from dig site in Southern Utah, a Dry Wall Anchor, an In-N-Out French Fry from under my car's driver seat.
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2023
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Plastics are connected to human's endless persistence towards leisure and play. Here, they are reframed through practices based in archeology, anthropology, and mysticism to explore how critical angles of analysis are formed and established when meaning seems obfuscated.
The installation, The Finder, is a speculative, archaeological site from the future that uses the lifespan of plastics to seek meaning and knowledge within lost contexts. This site investigates concepts of deep time, particularly non-human scales of time, to look at the possibility that plastics will not return to the earth due to their chemical makeup and considers them as objects fixed in a state of immanence.