Tony Cragg is an artist I have looked to in this project who works with ready-mades and ordinary objects to create powerful sculptural pieces. I think it's important to see how other practitioners approach this idea as it helps me imagine how my cartons might come together in their final form and give me confidence that I can make something really interesting like Cragg's. Fruit Bottles 1989 ( https://www.artnet.com/artists/tony-cragg/fruit-bottles ) These cast bronze scultpures are massively upscaled versions of fruit shaped plastic bottles, which are arranged in a group on the floor. The first thing I think is effective about this piece is the materials; the language of bronze is so vastly different to that of plastic - it is strong, valuable, heavy and goes back thousands of years as a resource used in human history. When I think of plastic I think of rubbish, tackiness, weakness and undesirability, it has a very low status compared to bronze and causes environmental destr...
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