The materials used in this work are ordinary daily consumer goods and their packages.

Produced directly to address humankind’s consumption needs, these objects and their packages can inhabit various points within the manufacturing-consumption cycle. Render the objects preservable, identifiable, transportable, and sellable for the manufacturer-consumer, the packaging, having completed its function, then becomes waste to take care of. This creates a new issue: one of market, labor, and profit/loss analysis. Humankind now faces the reality of a new status which must be built upon a natural basis and the principles of ecological interest and raising awareness regarding living in harmony with nature.

Although functional objects have been used as art objects for many years, the human-nature dichotomy raises problems that make the reexamination of these issues inevitable. For centuries there have been artistic approaches that touch on these issues in various ways, with forms born out of visuals’ struggle against themselves, the reinterpretation of objects with predetermined meanings through new forms, the presentation of the readymade object as an art object, and the art object born out of the congregation of functional objects.

This installation approaches the dining table—a concept with many different meanings in all cultures throughout the ages, to authentically present all of its processes in a single moment and a single spread, with all of its common values and its openness. It is a presentation—a table setting—that takes the concept itself, which is the merging of a form and a behavior, to drive the reutilization of objects which have lost their functions through a direct display, thereby exposing the claimed narrative with its other side, even as its whole being through a pattern of its inception, the current moment, and the aftermath.