Natana Rose
We are honored to show you all the eco focused, textural, and sometimes wearable work of Natana Rose!
Her love of nature began growing up in the mountains of Northern California. On a mission to reduce unnecessary consumption in her personal life and studio practice, .she believes that through awareness, selfless acts, and ingenuity, the tide of human devastation can be reversed. In 2018, she began working with cast-off plastics as an art medium as a step toward being a solution rather than a problem when it comes to creating waste. Natana obtained her MA from California State University, Sacramento and lives and works in Sacramento, California.
She explains more about her work:
My work incorporates single-use plastics as a medium. With the synthetic I sculpt forms that mimic natural organisms, and out of those forms create installations. The intent behind my work is twofold — first, to reduce waste by using my own and others cast-off single-use plastics in place of traditional art products, and second, to increase awareness about the prevalence of plastic pollution. In my work, the reference to forms like coral or bacteria speaks to the prevalence of plastic in our oceans, earth, and air. It also highlights that this pollution occurs at the smallest level. As plastic breaks down, it does not become reabsorbed like other materials, but continues to exist in smaller and smaller particles. When installed, my work can appear consumptive, like a growth threatening to overwhelm the space it inhabits. I feel this is an appropriate depiction of our current relationship to plastic production and use.
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