My current work is constructed from found plastic bottles and refers to sources as varied as the painting of Giorgio Morandi, ancient Greek, Roman and Islamic glass and ceramic vessels, Boli Figures from Mali and Egyptian Sculpture. I collect discarded bottles, cut them into pieces and use the parts to create new vessels and small sculptures. Some of my pieces are coated with mixed materials and/or glaze-like layers of polymers and paint, which vary the levels of transparency and opacity, emphasize or obscure the original material, and alter the visual and actual weight. Many of my works are based on specific pieces that I’ve admired for years at the Metropolitan Museum [NY, USA]. Others are based on collected images or built more intuitively through the playful reassembly of the individual parts.
Using today’s trash as material for sculptures that refer to early works of art may seem incongruent, yet it enables me to comment on our current throw-away culture while investigating issues of authenticity, originality, material, history, culture and the relative value of objects.
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| My Metropolitan: installation proposal • In this digital collage I replaced the art in a Greek and Roman gallery at the Metropolitan with vessels made from discarded plastic bottles __ Shari Mendelson |
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