To personalize the crisis of consumption and emphasize the shared responsibility of the waste we generate, I asked family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances to save their trash for a week and then lie down and be photographed in it. I created the settings in my backyard in Altadena, California: water, sand, snow, forest; no sphere of our collective home is safe from waste. I see these portraits as instant archeology, preserving the legacy of consumer culture in which we are at once victims and perpetrators, feathering our nests with waste.
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Created
May 26, 2021
Updated
Nov 10, 2023
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File:7 Days of Garbage_Siggins_0232.jpg
File:7 Days of Garbage_Susan 58625.jpg
File:7 Days of Garbage_Sam & Jane_65687_v2.jpg
File:7 Day Of Garbage_Joya_Santiniketan_Rabindranath_Chandramohan_Ben_Bodihisattba_&_Omjabarindra_0171.jpg
File:7 Days of Garbage_Till & Nicholas_58790.jpg
File:7 Days of Garbage_Mariko 60134.jpg
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File:7 Days of Garbage Snow Art&Sean 75121.jpg
File:7 Days of Garbage_Michael, Jason, Annie & Olivia 66189.jpg