Bad at Garbage June 2025

June 30, 2025 / Madeline Fan

Frantic to figure out how to hang my weaving from the May Art Marathon for the in-person show in Brattleboro, I dug into some of my other collections of trash that might one day prove useful and I have severe guilt around placing in a landfill. Don’t get me wrong…I obviously love plastic. Have you seen my tape drawings? I just have feelings about it being trash.

I pulled out a blue net bag — the kind that holds things like oranges or potatoes and found an old plastic cutting board. After a bit of play I liked how this looked.

Unable to Toss the Ties that Bind, (Bad at Garbage #1)

I was really pretty excited about it. I liked the feedback I received about it and so I made a couple more:

Maybe I’ll figure out how to repurpose all of the collected trash in my house…this is a start…and for now, it looks like I’m out of materials — I’d better eat more food so that I can produce a “body of work” ! One of these days I’ll have a whole show attesting to how bad I am at garbage! (But look at all the vegetables she eats!)

And, in the meanwhile, the top piece and these three pieces are included in the in-person show. If you can’t come to Brattleboro, this is how the other's look.

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