BagLand "about"

BagLand

BagLand started with the idea of art created from the everyday objects that we take for granted, the things we throw away. I set out to create art that explore humanity and humanity’s use of resources centered on an every day accessible object. Paper bags come in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and are readily available. In fact paper bags have so many different images and designs printed on them that I decided to create collages using paper bags as my medium. Collage and the paper bags seemed a natural fit since collage is the art of image and material recycling and re-use and paper bags are routinely recycled. By limiting myself to bags and the bag images I discovered bag jargon; a bag lingo. Tomatoes became BagLanders, wine glasses were helmets, bowls are boats, surfboards a rocket, and the end of the world is the bottom of a bag; BagLand was born!

What I know now that I did not know then is that BagLand is a destination. BagLand is the place paper bags can go when we humans have finished carrying our groceries, our knickknacks, or our gifts. BagLand is somewhere other than the trash or the recycling bin.

BagLand has a postal service, a freight service, a grocery store, and crops to harvest, a militia, silos, a space program, a power plant, and see the end of their world every time we reach the bottom of a bag. Welcome to BagLand!