Plastic Dreams

Using the limited materials of plastic bags, yarn, and masking tape, I formed a quilt designed to hang from the ceiling from multiple points, creating a saggy weighted feeling in the "fabric" of the cozy blanket. Inspired by sandals made of recycled plastic bags, I was very interested in using the plastic bags as a sort of fabric. I began stimulating ideas by shredded the bags into long strips (as utilized by Khalil Chishtee in his elegant plastic bag sculptures), braiding the bags, weaving them into a basket shape with wire, and so on, but finally landed on making neat squares of plastic bag material with no writing and limited color palette of Publix beige and Walmart gray.

The edges of the doubled-up plastic squares are held together by masking tape, a pleasant contrast of surface texture, which is further reinforced by the thick woven yarn.