{"id":226,"date":"2024-10-05T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waste.org\/~velouria\/neonshift\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=226"},"modified":"2024-10-10T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:45:05","slug":"the-wave-and-the-living-womb","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/neonshift.art\/?portfolio=the-wave-and-the-living-womb","title":{"rendered":"the wave and the living womb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-visual-portfolio\">\n<div class=\"vp-portfolio vp-uid-c388af74 vp-id-Z22h0j3\"\n\tdata-vp-layout=\"tiles\" data-vp-content-source=\"images\" data-vp-items-style=\"default\" data-vp-items-click-action=\"popup_gallery\" data-vp-items-gap=\"15\" data-vp-items-gap-vertical=\"\" data-vp-pagination=\"load-more\" data-vp-next-page-url=\"\" data-vp-tiles-type=\"4|1,1|\" >\n\t<div class=\"vp-portfolio__preloader-wrap\">\n\t\t<div class=\"vp-portfolio__preloader\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" 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The resulting space is a social atmosphere of play, interaction, and observation. <em>The Wave<\/em> video is of a never-ending loop of waves of garbage crashing into shore unable to escape the rhythm of the ocean. I\u2019m looking at the connections we have with garbage both publicly and privately as the unclaimed ocean garbage becomes the narrative on the structure itself. \u00a0We often see garbage being created personally, but we have to also look at corporations as well. Garbage moves from a private, personal entity into the realm of the public. Public garbage is often stripped of identity, responsibility, and concern. By projecting on and into <em>The Wave<\/em>, into the network I am pushing public garbage back into a personal habitat.<em>The <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Living Womb <\/em>is a public inflatable space that visitors can enter through a zippered wall. Projections of oil and water as well as lights illuminate the space while air flows in the interior. 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