31 Mar
Image of the Week – 55 (Bradley Hart)
When we find a discarded piece of bubble wrap most of us pop each bubble in a physically therapeutic moment of calm then throw out the by now useless material with the office or household trash .
Bradley Hart has found a new use for it: he injects each bubble with acrylic paint and recreates snapshots.
He says: At every level of my studio practice I recycle as a function of the work. I recycle the syringes; the dried paint in the mixing jar and collect the drips of paint on the bubble wrap and the drop sheet. I then make derivative works, which repurpose the waste. Bubble Wrap evokes the plastic nature of our society. 99% of everything we use is made out of plastic… a substance derived from crude oil. Most consumer goods are molded plastic and are made through mass manufacturing. The injection process is complex and time consuming, which highlights the irony of applying such delicate physical artistry to a mass-produced material and the indestructible nature of plastic versus the fragility of bubble wrap.
