In Warmth, Giant Black Toobs, I use solar power and ambient breezes to give life to the ever-present black plastic garbage bag. Towering garbage bags, aka “Toobs”, are inflated by the wind and then staked to the ground. The air inside each Toob is heated by the sun producing buoyancy, movement, and transforming this symbol of consumption and waste into kinetic, seemingly sentient creatures—live plastic hybrids whose choreography brings to mind the very sea creatures our epoch’s mass of waste affects.
