The waste, or left-overs, from consumed items: documented one by one. Then there's just an extra compositional one at the end :P
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documenting trash...
ReplyDeleteI don't see a thesis statement/proposal, and so don't know your context/motivations, but...
look at the thesis documentation of Randi Giles, who took a walk around the entirety of Prudence Island (Rhode Island, took her two days), and collected objects from that walk, and made a project out of the findings... there was also a beautiful map, and installation.
also, regarding trash, you're probably aware of the term "maintenance art" and the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles
http://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-art/
https://elephant.art/a-manifesto-for-maintenance-art-taught-me-the-true-value-of-hard-essential-work-14122021/
all kinds of stuff out there.
I'm thinking also of the richly deep and varied work of Shannon Mattern
https://wordsinspace.net/work/
maybe overwhelming, but I believe she's written about maintenance art, recycling and especially about repairing things (="maintenance").
there's an instagram too
https://www.instagram.com/atlas.sounds/