Endless Fields of Detritus Blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial Composites
The Liminality of Landfills
Landfills are physically liminal because they are spaces of transition, occupying a threshold between former and future uses. The land itself is in an unstable, transitory state, with decomposing waste causing the ground to settle and shift. This makes it unfit for most construction for decades, a physical manifestation
... See moreDuring the fifties, some American artists began to realize what the Dadaists in Europe had known about three decades before: that there might be a subject in this landscape of waste, this secret language of junk, because societies reveal themselves in what they throw away.