I came across the work of Julie Shiels and felt it was a real comment on value in our culture. She collects packaging, discards of the actual product and then takes casts of the negative spaces left by the empty packaging. In essence making the rubbish part last longer and become more valuable than the actual product that it housed.
“Apart from being a mad critique of mass production and the era of the $2 dollar shop this work explores the ideas of material culture and asks questions about what objects will survive and become meaningful beyond their looming use by date. How do changing tastes affect the meaning and value of an object? ” Julie Shiels
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