Waste Bags, 2019-2020.
This series of drawings is called Biodegradable or Waste Bags. I started it in November 2019 when travelling between Ottawa and Montreal by train. I needed to draw, I had a pen my friend grabbed from Fedex at a job fair, so the Rail Canada waste bag looked like a good place for drawing.
To me, the paper (bag, canvas etc) is the body and the drawing is the mind when it comes to Fine Arts.
Garbage bags metaphorically represent the bodies of people after death and their "waste" when it comes to saving lives, in relation to the possibility of organ transplantation. It is a personal and collective matter. Many people wait for organs they cannot live without. I personally waited a long time before receiving a kidney from an unknown cadaver donor.
At this sad and almost unbelievable historical moment, I believe that after everything that is happening during the Pandemic this work has become even more present and real. In many countries bodies were literally left in garbage bags. It's hard to breath without smelling fear, suffering, death and putrefaction all over the planet.
 Bag to Earth IBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |  Bag to Earth IIBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |  Bag to Earth IIIBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |
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 Bag to Earth IVBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |  Bag to EarthBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |  Bag to Earth VIBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |
 Bag to Earth VIIBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |  Bag to Earth VIII - Bin Liner For Food Waste / Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques |  Bag to Earth IXBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |
 Bag to Earth XBag to Earth - Bin Liner For Food Waste/ Sac au Sol - Pour Bac Pour Résidus Organiques, 2020. 12 x 8'' (30 x 20 cm). Pastel on paper garbage bag. |  Bag to Earth I (detail) |  Rail Canada Waste BagRail Canada Waste Bag III, December, 2019. Pastels on Rail Canada Waste Bag. |
 Rail Canada Waste BagRail Canada Waste Bag III, December, 2019. Pastels on Rail Canada Waste Bag. |  AA waste bag IAA waste bag I. December, 2019. Pastels on American Airlines waste bag. |  AA Waste Bag IVAA Waste Bag IV, Fev. 2019. Pastels on American Airlines waste bag. |
 Exhibition 2020AA Waste Bags I, II and III, Dec. 2019. Picture of Exhibition. Pastels on American Airlines waste bag. |  Rail Canada Waste BagRail Canada Waste Bag II, December, 2019. Pastels on Rail Canada Waste Bag. |