Packaging Space

Calvin Brett Presents “Packaging Space”

Just about everything we own is packaged and shipped in cardboard boxes. We use the items for a short bit of time, then we toss them in landfills or flush them down the ocean. Treasure in our American society is very often turned into trash. And the lives of those who make our luxury items are very often filled with little luxury at all. Some complain about increased inflow of immigration while our society drains the life force from the global majority in order to sate our desire for consumption.

Through this piece, “Packaging Space”, we invite the public to consider how all of our actions relate. How objects have their own unique lives, taking new functions depending on the context we choose to view them in. We aim to increase our consciousness as it pertains to reuse and promote creativity as an opposing force to entropy. We also aim to display how everything is in constant state of transformation: what one day is a tree, the next day is table, the next day a shelf, and the next day perhaps a work of art..

The piece was on display at The Scrap Exchange
1/26/18 - 2/10/2018


Contributing Artists

Anne Gregory-Bepler
Aisha Sanders
Calvin Brett
Carin Walsh & Jenny Blazing
Jaclyn Bowie