This work is a contemplation of hierarchy and perceived virtue of simplicity. It responds contemporary ‘greiging’ of a complex world, exacerbated by a culture of reductionism, immediacy and prioritisation of low production costs. Post-consumer glassware is constrained into a box and painted to minimise variation, with a tension behind the façade arising from the fusion of slightly incompatible glass. Minimal form, once a symbol of transcendence from the physical world, has been recontextualised to serve different agendas: mass consumption, power and control. By reworking discarded glass, the work draws attention to the connectedness of all matter and cyclical nature of perceived value. Use of discarded material draws attention to the cyclical nature of perceived value, with repetition challenging the supremacy of a single object.
