Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin wraps up this first season of Plasticity and discusses plans for season 2.

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen work through aesthetic considerations in their art and how to connect with different audiences. How do you bridge the aesthetics inherent to recycled plastic with audiences that are conceptually aligned with the work, but often not aesthetically aligned? What is the re-used plasthetic?

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen talk about their relationship to the plastic bags they use in their work. What meanings different bags carry, especially in the context of consumerism and branding. When working with reused plastics, we're always making decisions to enhance or obscure the original advertising present on most materials.

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen think about the contexts they present work in and the various reactions and effects as well as the context of other contemporary plastic work they have seen.

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen discuss their relationships with traditional craft. There lots of potential reasons for tension with traditional expectations of both life and creative practices. On the other hand there is also a great deal of appreciation for the same traditions and through lines from the past into the future.

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen discuss the underlying climate dread inherent to their chosen medium. Working with waste plastics as the primary material for creating art has an ever-present dystopian quality brought on by the sheer, terrifying ocean choking abundance of it. Acknowledge the doom, but don't fall in.

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen talk strategies for working with and embracing the inconsistencies of waste plastic as an art medium. It's hard to know for sure what the supply of any given plastic will be and how it will act once it's in the studio. The bags most commonly used in their work come from a variety of manufacturers and though the plastic is the same, inks, dyes and construction differ, making improvisation a must.

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Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen discuss their plastic studio setups and a few safety measures for working with the material. Getting starting with plastic artmaking is very low barrier and requires few tools, making it a fantastic material to

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Some of the equipment we talked about

Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen talk about the concepts and themes in their current work as well as projects they're developing this year.

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Some of the art in this episode is now on display:

Making art from inherited waste.

Griffin Nordstrom & Domenica Queen explain the meandering paths through art and life that brought them to creating artwork with waste plastics.

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Art from this episode: