Over Christmas and especially due to all of the news about Syrian Refugees I came to the realization that, even though I am a somewhat (un)known medium income artist, I am part of the Group classified as “ The 1%” or the people who Have. I Have shelter, food, clothes, family, a job, health and wealth in the bank. I even, have the ability to spend my extra money on a Christmas tree and ornaments and presents. This led me to thinking about the two main classes; the HAVES and the HAVE NOTS.
Spoon Collections reside in many homes across Middle America collecting dust. This is a testament to being on the Haves. If this is a spoon collection that never gets used then why not make it out of very unlikely materials; hair, nails, lava, toxic waste, the moon, concrete etc.? What if these spoons identified as things of danger , taboo or a mind set we should not do but possibly do out of necessity or boredom?
This is the thought process for these works. They are conceptual, silly and commenting on what us Capitalist Haves spend our hard earned money on. Feel Free to Spend your money on my Unlikely Spoon Collection.
USC-Health & Beauty by Lauren McKinley Renzetti $75
Toxic Waste we know and Love II, Browns Ferry USA, Greifswald Germany, Kalpakkan India $100
Toxic Waste we know and Love I Chernobyl Ukraine, Darlington Canada Fukushima Japan, – 3 mile Island USA $100
Tools of commerce, information, money, keyboard, power $150
SOLD Sports and Leisure Gone Fishing, Tour de France $75
Small Town Spoons, Cork Town , Bean Town $75
Solar System Spoons outer planets +1- Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Pluto $125
Solar System Spoons- Inner Planets -1 +1, mercury , Venus, mars, Jupiter $125
