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behemcloth
this was a joint entry with Rebecca Wright into the 2023 Waste 2 Art competition in Broken Hill where it won the local award for best professional entry and the ‘pushing boundaries’ award at the regional exhibition.
Description
the sculpture is made entirely of salvaged materials, scrap metal was welded together for the structure and a chicken wire frame was attached to that for the form. it was then wrapped in reams of bandage made out of scraps of fabric sewn together. below is the artist statement we submitted to the competition:
This is a small scale replica (1: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000) of the ever growing Fast Fashion Behemcloth.
It’s not just the immense material waste but the human waste and environmental devastation (both in production and disposal) that makes the fast fashion industry particularly bad.
In some ways though it’s just a symptom of a world where unchecked capital can stretch its grubby fingers into far off places and squeeze the unprotected people and land for all they’re worth in the mindless pursuit of growth and profit.
Jason was the visionary and built the structure while Bec sewed together the endless bandages of fabric scraps in which it was wrapped.