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Ava Bock

I first began to formally study light through photography. While I explored light through the lens, I discovered an ever-present yet otherwise hidden connection between the various expressions of light and its symbiotic relationship to plastics. Photographic coatings, negatives, and colored films were the only plastics in my life at the time. Still, when my health required more than an annual visit, my world immediately transformed into one full of plastic sheets and silicone tubes that has kept expanding since then. Spending months in full view of the vast diversity of life-saving plastic became the catalyst I needed to evolve my practical use of plastics from a simple material into a full-time medium.

My growth with plastic shifted toward creations that supported an abstract analysis of my internal perceptions and experiences. As I opened myself up to this new direction, my senses went from an external reactionary state to one that is more personal and intimate. Following this new path, I found myself in a place of meditation and contemplation. It is here that I found myself at home using plastic to communicate and illuminate the parts of my perception hidden in the abstract pulses of my mind. I now translate light through the medium of plastic to create colorful expressions of emotional experience, textured displays of physical relationships, and visual displays of memories preserved.


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