Establishing and Reinforcing
a Community of Emerging Artists in NYC
KRISTIAN BATTELL
Plastic recycling collected from my own use, plastic tape, newspaper, wheat paste, newsprint, matte medium, original silkscreen printed on lokta paper, found moss, foraged lichens, acrylic paint 33 x 20 x 16 in. | $3,500
Plastic recycling collected from my own use, plastic tape, newspaper, wheat paste, newsprint, matte medium, original silkscreen printed on lokta paper, found moss, foraged lichens, acrylic paint 33 x 20 x 16 in. | $3,500 ea.
Plastic recycling collected from my own use, plastic tape, newspaper, wheat paste, newsprint, matte medium, original silkscreen printed on lokta paper, found moss, foraged lichens, acrylic paint 33 x 20 x 16 in. | $3,500
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The title of this series is “Terra Incognita: Aftermath of the Anthropocene” (2020-ongoing). I view these sculptures as landforms of the future: a landscape made from a center of plastic, layers of soil replaced with newspaper, and only the most simple, prehistoric-like vegetation clinging to the sides of the mountains. I have always considered my art to float in the realm of surrealism. The process I used for this series, pasting and juxtaposing objects together, gives the work a new aesthetic: three dimensional Cubism of the anthropocene. From the outside the work appears to be near perfect, wrapped in screen printed paper, but the inside is composed of man-made waste. The paper represents how our Capitalistic society likes to put a band-aid over our problems, pushing them deep down and pretending the issue is no longer there.