Polystyrene Site Maps               

 

Imagine a world without polystyrene packaging. What could be the value of looking at these shapes differently in this time and space?

 

This visual story aims to embrace polystyrene packaging as a resource to explore spatial relations within themselves and the global context by manipulating and archiving their forms digitally. By looking differently at these 29 selected objects, they become an investigation into the origin, architecture, geology, representation, and value of this form of industrialization.

 

The polystyrene represented as three ruin-like sites engage with these ideas. It prompts us to question how we consume electronic devices within a global socio-political context. By using the packaging material that typically gets discarded, the work reverses our attitude towards these extinguishing forms and materials.

All 29 polystyrene objects are carefully scanned and documented with multiple techniques to unravel the role in space and time in which these objects exist and are created by the value we place upon them as a society. 

 

Element number 14 is a replica of the original and is preserved as cast in a different material.