Sublime Waste
Foam Spill
Assorted hand-cut, recycled, Styrofoam clamshell containers and cups, 2011
In contemporary thought, Timothy Morton defines interconnectedness in Nature as the Ecological Mesh[1]. My cut-out boxes from Styrofoam are a simile of this mesh and embedded with ecological meaning. The Mesh Suites, a related series of linocut-embossings are the cut-out patterns translated into print. In both, there is equal value in the void and remaining grid. Morton observes the background/foreground equality in the Ecological Thought.
[1] Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought. Harvard University press, 2010
Eveline Kolijn’s latticed Styrofoam containers offer a simple black and white dynamic, but are a beautifully executed and moving appropriation of fast food and excess, implicating anyone indulging in such acts of consumption.
Dick Averns, The New Alberta Contemporaries, Galleries West, August 2012