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Artworks
Ruth Tabancay
Adapting to New Substrates 2.1, 2021Hand embroidery. Polystyrene, plastic bags, plastic cups, bubble wrap, face masks, vegetable tags, straw.32” x 42” x 2”
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Visual Description of Artwork
This work consists of 19 separate pieces of various single-use plastics pinned to the wall in a diagonal square arrangement. Plastics such as black and white Styrofoam trays (some cut into smaller pieces), white, blue, and maroon plastic bags, bubble wrap, red plastic cups, blue face masks, purple and white vegetable tags and a white and red striped straw are hand-embroidered with stitches that resemble bacteria, larvae, fungal colonies and fungal structures.
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