Green Been
2020
glass, styrofoam, ziploc bags, coffee grounds, coffee beans, thread, magazine page, electrical tape, hot glue, cinema catalogue, coffee filter, nespresso pod, denim, price tag sticker
16 x 12 x 2in
This piece was an investigation of global exploitation and depletion of natural resource, a recurrent theme in my work, taken here through the lens of coffee production. I wanted to question the sanitised nature of ‘fair trade’ products as presented in the Global North; how the iconography of ‘natural’ and ‘slow process’ feed into a practice of looking away or past histories of exploitation. A major export of my own country of residence to nations in the Global South is ‘recycling’--by placing these scrubbed-clean narratives of import and export alongside each other, I hoped to darken that narrative circle.
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