People think that as soon as you take the trash out, then it just disappears.
I have the feeling most people don't think about where it's going and don't realize that
it's going to a junk pile that's increasingly getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
This is the only earth we get.
It's like our eyes.
We only get this pair and that's it.
So we have a responsibility to be conscientious.
We can either choose to take a path that leads us to the extinction of humanity or to the
evolution of humanity and I try to live my life in such a way where I am working towards
the evolution of humanity.
The Comax series consists of multiple chandeliers made of recycled bicycle parts.
In my work, it's important to me to use materials that are already here and to understand to
the idea that something that had an original function doesn't necessarily have to have
that same function and in a way you can transcend that function.
The Comax series for me is looking at the chandelier as a symbol of wealth and not just
wealth but opulence and power and influence and looking at the bicycle parts as the discarded,
the invisible, the disposable.
I'm really interested in the new third meaning that comes as a result of using the bike parts
as the material for the chandelier.
To me it represents this reclamation of power and a subversion of that power.
Most importantly a reclamation of agency in influence and influencing the path of our
future.
One of the most satisfying things about my work is that it is the very representation
of what I believe in and so my voice is not necessarily in the street like protesting
but actually hoping to spark some dialogue.
You can make beautiful things out of unlikely materials and out of trash because it's not
trash.
I mean it's trash because it no longer serves its original function but that doesn't mean
that it can't have another function altogether and that's where our creativity needs to
come into place.
Thank you.
