Objects

In the summer of 2025 sanitation workers in the city of Philadelphia went on strike and there was no trash pickup for a couple weeks. As recyclables began to pile up in my kitchen I began to think about the illusion of impermanence we are under when it comes to recycling. How much plastic waste actually gets recycled? And how much will out sit in a landfill for the next few thousand years? I took my plastic recyclables from during the strike and encased them in a coating of concrete to remind myself that this shit is probably permanent and we should probably stop using so much of it.

Tiny concrete chairs for Stickball’s Another Tiny Chair Show

I had been making a bunch of this particular spoon design that had a fairly small bowl but a nice long handle, perfect getting into the corners of deep pots. I started to think, how long can I make a spoon where it stops being a functional spoon? I made a series of these longs spoons, each was around ~4ft long.