The Source with Market Bag and Curtains
The Source With Market Bag and Curtains
Crocheted plastic bags, latex wall stencil, curtain rods, plastic cup with plastic chips
Dimensions Variable
2014
This installation was created during Back in Five Minutes, a residency program as part of Office Hours, (a project by Nicolás Dumit Estevez Raful) in the galleries of El Museo del Barrio. It includes three artworks: The Source, a wall stencil based on an Olmeca design showing reverence for water life and using the image of a net and aquatic life; Market Bag, a sculpture made from crocheted used plastic bags and modeled after the straw shopping bags that one commonly brought to market in Mexico; and Curtains (version 2) made from crocheted used plastic bags, using the filet crochet technique for two texts--USE YOUR OWN BAG and REFUSE PLASTIC.
Photo Credit: Timothy K. Lee