Ontological Vacuum

My degree project has been developed through my research on the topics of originality, consumption, vanitas and consumer culture. It referneces the politics of consumption, desire, pollution, waste, the passing of time, the effect of decay, and death. The scene is a reconstruction of a "still life" scene, referencing Baroque painting. The light-box installation comprises coloured sculptures which are emblems of consumerism. The hanmade and the organic are joined in composition, as if united in ruin and decay. The sculptures resemble the still life genre and allude to memento-mori. The project also addresses the industrial food system. It emphasises efficiency, profit and power in ways that are narrowly constructed, sometimes at the expense of other environmental and social values. It consist of a glass-cast modern cornucopia. The glass captures decomposing traces and makes them solid and everlasting. Even with something so fragile and temporary as life, the material can freeze it in time. The glass captures life