Image: Ellen Driscoll FastForwardFossil

Description: Installation by Ellen Driscoll, FastForwardFossil; Part 2 (#2 harvested plastic, 30'L x 7'H x 14'W, 2009, Smack Mellon). The image illustrates a later body of work in Ellen Driscoll's career: her environmentally based installations of the 2000s, which critiqued contemporary culture's over-dependence on fossil fuels, rampant consumption, geopolitical imbalance and economic volatility. These installations were primarily made from found and repurposed, petroleum-based plastic jugs and drink containers and depicted cartography of resources, technology, consumption, and waste across three centuries, including miniature industrial structures, McMansions, abandoned shacks, and abstracted landmasses, as in this 28-foot landscape. This work was commissioned by a major museum, publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.
Title: Ellen Driscoll FastForwardFossil
Credit: Artist Ellen Driscoll. Copyright held by the artist.
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