Warhol challenged us to look at mass produced items as something beautiful...I wonder how he'd feel knowing so much of those same items now end up in a 1.6 million square kilometre patch of floating trash? I wonder what he would think about us making miniature version of those mass produced and wasted items giving them away for free and those ending up in the same gigantic trash soup?
Are those mass produced items still beautiful? I don’t think he would be too impressed.
This work is made from just over 200 of the "little shop" toys...its great they aren't being given away anymore but they are still out there by the millions, slowly making their way into the oceans. Instead of allowing that to continue I've taken a small amount of them to create a new piece of pop art, a small piece of the great pacific garbage to take home for yourself.
I hope this work makes people want to recycle more, or perhaps make their own art in a similar way. whatever solves the problem really. Lets just try not to make it worse.