This sculpture was inspired by a video i made when i was a 20-something, living in chicago, with little responsibility and a whole lot of friends. it’s meant to recall that feeling of waking up the morning after a party, seeing all the garbage leftover, the mess to clean up, and fun memories from the night before.
i wanted the light to feel like that first light of the morning, still cool from the blues of night, but warming up with the rising sun. I wanted the movements of the camera to feel like how the brain takes in all the mess after a party, slow and without urgency to start the clean up process. letting the fun linger just a moment more.
i wanted the space to feel like where a 20 something millennial lived. Someone with an entry-level job and enough income to start making their own home furnishing decisions, but not enough adult taste to make it feel like a home.
List of items repurposed:
—structure for wine box
-Stained and wrinkled poster board for wall covering/white walls
-Wooden floor from painted and cut kleenex box
-IKEA table reproduction made from candle and Kleenex boxes
-Tablecloth from husband’s old white t-shirt
-Marble serving dish from cat medicine measurement tool
-plastic cup from tip of salad dressing top
-melted candles from Qtips with glue and paint
-white and black candle holders from airplane earbuds
-gold candle holders from gems from christmas popper packaging
-matching chinoiserie vases from painted airplane ear buds
-melted plastic pieces from salad containers for wine and beer bottles, some painted. Beer bottle labels painted. Wine bottle labels cut from victorian paper scraps.
-cut cava topper for salad bowl
-books made from IKEA instruction manual and covered from TASCHEN magazine pages
