"I want to know how it feels, to go down in the ocean, till the end of the world.
Till I loose north and south.
Where plastic bags are forgotten...
Where their skin merges with mine...
I want to know how it feels, to become one with trash and earth.
Till there is no difference between dark matter and light...
Till there is no difference between you and I...
I want to know how it feels to forget my egoform.
To go back to one and to reborn.
Lucia Femia"
Become One With Trash And Earth evokes the memory of Pachamamas afflicted wound, due to excessive production and greed. In the midst of the violence born of ignorance, this installation and its process of creation, become a healing ritual.
The naive materiality, brimming with innocence and unwavering faith, are there to celebrate the revolutionary activists killed in the Amazon rainforest to the citizens organising to change the constitution in Iceland in 2008.
It is an endless product that wakes up and wants to be _ Anzaldúa, G. (2022). Borderlands = la frontera: The New Mestiza, Aunt Lute Books. In his desperation to understand himself, it takes what it finds and composes his body with _ Winnicott, D. W. (2017). Playing and reality, Routledge.
Embodying the essence of the natural world in a trash world – a deep symbiosis between the human and non-human realms – this ecosystem constantly plays with materials, finding his body parts (3D modelling made from textile trash experiments). In the immense joy of creation but also in the awareness of the sorrows of existence, the art piece cries, and we cry with her. Become One With Trash And Earth embodies the quintessence of the Capitalocene – an era of ecological emergency – blending the discarded materials of plastic and metal with the innate realm. Through her assemblage process, the installation reflects the dual facets of environmental lament and artistic exultation, discovering appeal and meaning amidst the disorder. The artwork is an entity fervently engaging with its surroundings, reshaping discarded fragments into a mystical entity that comes to life and yearns for existence, an action rooted in its very form.
