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“Everlasting Remains begins with paper casts of plastic produce containers, altered artificial fruit, and other throwaway forms associated with everyday consumption. From these materials, I construct images that move between shrine, offering, repository, and ruin. Across this sequence, a solitary object set within a niche gives way to hanging clusters, tabletop arrangements, densely packed repositories, and compressed accumulations of artificial fruit and containers.
The work is informed by Dutch still life and memento mori, but my attention shifts from the brevity of human life to the afterlife of the materials we leave behind. I think about what future researchers might learn from our trash middens—what these remnants of packaging might reveal about our dependence on plastics, habits of consumption, and assumptions of permanence. In several images, projected imagery is cast across the still life during exposure, creating layers of visual excess and compression that speak to abundance less as plenitude than as surplus, accumulation, and burden.” Mitch Eckert
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