Creating Stuff out of Existing Stuff (2024).
During my ever-growing multi-media art practice, my project embraces material exploration, intuition, instinct and ideas of overconsumption via the manipulation of sustainably foraged items and art assemblage. Working within a multi-media and sculptural context, I combine and rework materials and objects which I select freely and randomly through a process of ‘total fluidity within foraging’ to create art objects and evocative installations. While exploring influences from various ‘local environments’ – such as the nature around, the bodily, and feelings within – my practice integrates concepts such as: intuitive processes and surrealist ideology; environmental considerations like over-consumption; foraging and ideas of kitsch; as well as ‘idea production in jest’.
My work aims to generate discussion among viewers in a way that questions ideas of artistic intention, the serious and unserious, and creative expression. Constructed entirely from locally foraged and randomly found, second-hand, and recycled materials, my project includes various items such as: left-over malleable metal wires, left over tissue paper, op-shop sourced woven wool and brooches, pins, rings and other jewellery; found gloves and mannequin heads; found hooks, nails and glass beads; recycled glass and plastic bottles, metal cans, lighters and cigarettes – emphasising the idea of giving new life and form to already existing and discarded materials – which are simply adhered together with old craft PVA glue and yarn.
View my art Instagram; @kasandras.art.archive via the QR code below – check out my many 2024 Uni Story Highlights, and feed posts to see the way I’ve worked through this project, organised chaos and all!
