Pakistani artist Khalil Chishtee creates life-sized statues using trash bags, unused grocery bags, and plastic sheets, which he says is a metaphor for “recycling our identities” or braving the problems of life.
Says Chishtee: “In art, one has to be the voice of one’s own time, not an echo of another era. We live in the age of plastic, and plastic bags are the most ordinary form of this material. It goes back to the Sufi approach of my upbringing where worth does not depend on what you inherit, it depends on who you are. Anything made out of bronze, wood, stone or painted on a canvas carries the appearance of being worth looking at, because of its history, but if one can change the impact of that history, one is an artist.”
(via WeTheUrban and Combustus)
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