The Morse Institute Natick, MA
November-December 2025
The Waste We Create is a total of 164 square feet of painted, layered, stitched, cut and woven plastics. It’s comprised of 10 panels – 2 -2 ft h x 10ft w and 8-2ft h x 8ft w panels. All toll they weigh a total of 20.11lbs of non-recyclable post-consumer waste that has been diverted from the landfill. This took ten months to create with plastic generated by one family consisting of two people. Items incorporated in this work range from a lobster flotation device, nylon vegetable bags, plastic straws, mailing envelops, bread bags and many bags of frozen vegetables.