Rubbish Topographies, 2011 Mixed media, used tea bags, trash Touchstones Nelson, Nelson, BC, Canada Rule of interaction: Send the artist clean, dry tea bags as raw materials for an art installation. Rubbish Topographies is a landscape made of donated trash. Although the pile of tea bags and cardboard may bring to mind the panicked adage that, “we make too much garbage!”, it symbolizes something further. Every tea bag was saved, dried, and delivered by the artist’s family, friends, friends-of-friends, coworkers, […]

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