7 Days of Garbage

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.