Credit: Chris Arend/Anchorage Museum

Postconsumer Mandala

Dianna Cohen
Plastic bags, handles, thread
Los Angeles

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By using plastic bags as her primary medium, Dianna Cohen halts the usual cycle of production, distribution and disposal and calls upon viewers to reevaluate the aesthetic potential of such a common object. Dianna believes there are few objects more representative of contemporary First World culture than the plastic shopping bag, but because we see and use so many bags in the course of a day, we're not likely to pay them much attention before we discard or recycle them.