Materials: Ceram wrap, clear packaging tape, pill bottles (prescription, off the shelf)
Project: Make a “tape man” life size and fill it with pill bottles. Position and level filled to with bottle to be determined.
Would like to either have the tape man ripping his stomach or torso open and having the bottles fall out.
OR have the pill bottles visibly being regurgitated starting from the ‘waist’ (possible name pun?) up through the
esophagus trail and through to the mouth. Either position would have bottles scattered around the feet of the tape man.
Why: To go off of my last project dealing with entheogens, illegal drugs used for spiritual context. These easily accessible shelf and prescription drugs are consumed and even wasted with pills/liquid still left if not desirable for abuse. The bottles, which are produced to seal and protect the various drugs are usually disposed, not recycled or used for a different, more efficient reason. This sculpture/instillation is showing not only how we can use this “waste” in a different way, but also making a political statement on our consumption/waste of legal drugs.
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