Study of Trash
Eloise captures the interactions of how nature and culture influence each other by creating a language of visual interaction. With her current body of work, she challenges the use of plastics and how archaeology can be a means to bring beauty to trash washed ashore to beaches. Archaeology is a means to understand the people of the past through their material
cultures. It is a way for us to understand the personas who lost these items. Archaeologists can take an object and tease out the making of the culture it came from based on materials and making techniques, and so much more.
Study of Trash is a triptych encasing marine debris collected in Florida and Michigan in plaster to preserve and highlight what is usually overlooked. What story will and can be said from this trash? How can we use trash to create a profile of our lives today?
