Vespa

‘Vespa’ is made from recycled and repurposed cardboard and draws on themes of consumerism and materialism in our disposable society, while invoking a feeling of nostalgia. In experiencing the work firsthand, I hope the viewer will reconnect and remember with a sense of childlike delight their own experiences playing with a cardboard box as a child.

I’m inviting the viewer to appreciate the work in different ways, firstly to enjoy the detailed building of the object, and secondly the illusionary experience of the physical presence of a well-known object made with a material most people think of as light, weak, and only meant to be used as a container and then thoughtlessly discarded.

I want my creative visions to speak for themselves, it’s my ideas that matter, my pieces are made from a material that most throw away, this lets my design take center stage, beyond the glitz and glamour of fine materials.