Javier Manjarrés

Abstract

So many materials—created either through nature’s patient labor or by human technology; so many hours from the lives of anonymous individuals spent shaping these materials into furniture or various other objects; so many objects that, after a useful life spent supporting the development of countless human beings, projects, and places, have ended up—unceremoniously and ignominiously—tossed into the trash; so much trash suffocating us, devouring us, burying us; so much potential beauty—hidden treasures waiting to be discovered beneath the shapes, colors, and textures of these discarded objects and materials now turned to waste; such profligate squandering of the planet’s resources in an relentless pursuit of raw materials and energy, all to produce yet more goods destined to be thrown away—becoming, in turn, more trash—in an unstoppable, self-destructive cycle...