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Artworks
Ruth Tabancay
Adapting to New Substrates 3.0, 2022Hand embroidery. Polystyrene, plastic bags, plastic cups, bubble wrap, face masks, vegetable tags, straw, takeout food container.26” x 33” x 3”___
Visual Description of Artwork
This work consists of 10 separate pieces of various single use plastics pinned to the wall in a rectangular arrangement. Plastics such as a black styrofoam tray (cut into two pieces), a red plastic cup, a white and a green plastic bag, blue face masks, orange bubble wrap, white takeout food box, purple vegetable tag, and white straw with red stripes are hand-embroidered with stitches that resemble bacteria, larvae, fungal colonies and fungal structures.
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