Artist Statement
"Lawn" is made up found green plastic objects laid out in patches of greens resembling a suburban lawn. Green is a color that represents nature. It is interesting to see what is mass produced in green plastic and how, once again, color is used as a marketing tool. Almost anything you can imagine that has a relationship to nature, good or bad, can probably be found in green plastic: fly swatters, a turtle shaped sandbox/pool, real and toy Army junk, yard tolls and furniture, Astroturf, weed killer, dinosaurs and monsters, bug spray, plastic plants, etc. We think of the lawn as a natural phenomenon, but really, it is a man-made thing. It is said that the lawn is the biggest agricultural crop in the country. "Lawn" pushes that artificiality to an extreme, finding the horrible beauty in formal squares of discarded trash, each object carrying the weight of its individual meaning, as crucial and profuse as a blade of grass.
- Love,
Céline
Artist Statement
In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in environment and the plastic nature, plastic flowers and plastic procreation of our consumer culture. "The Garden," is an artificial nature one can enter. A quilt of floral dresses covers the ceiling and walls, creating a canopy for the garden growing beneath. Floors are flooded with blossoms and bunny rabbits, rugs of stuffed animals, skinned and sewn together. A floral love seat sits among clusters of consumer commodities that seem to have grown over every square inch of surface. Lamps are encrusted with plastic daisies. Tall bunny rabbits centaurs smothered in fake flowers and stand guard. "The Garden" centers around ideas of artificial beauty and images associated with fertility and funerary rites.
Portia Munson
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Céline
This Digital Art made by Jochem van Wetten is playing with mother nature. Like I already mentioned I love flowers (and nature). Normally I'm not into digital art at all, but this art I like. It's fun, it's light weighted and brings a message to the world. The 2 works I'm showing you, have a inner message about nature, what people do with it and the environment. Start thinking people and visit the website of Jochem van Wetten!
