Upon opening many of the barrels of fashion and textile waste, I found a whole bunch of bedding. Huge amounts, in fact. Bedding that seemed to be in absolutely perfect condition. As I pulled each piece out I wondered, who sleeps in king-size beds these days? Who needs to get rid of their king-size sheets? What op-shopping aficionados would have king-size beds and specifically be looking for sheets of such size?
I tend to associate king-size beds with the rich and op-shopping with the non-rich. This opinion can't be entirely true, alas I am but a mere mortal artist swimming amongst great tides of donated rubbish bedding products. Perhaps to reconcile my presumptuous judgements about people’s bed-size to pay-bracket ratio, I decided to do something with them. I had indeed struck upon a bountiful opportunity to utilise these vast swathes of fabric that neither the rich nor non-rich wanted. My resolve was to transform them into something valuable, appealing, fashionable, healing, and beautiful. Something that would honour the fabric and those who created it.
As a predominantly visual artist I felt the urge to use the sheets as my canvas to paint images upon. There are always a whole bunch of assorted mistinted paint pots available at Bunnings. I was very lucky to walk in at a time when they were getting rid of a bunch of beautiful pastel mistints. Perfect for some beautiful bed-sheet paintings. I decided that I wanted to paint fashionable human figures framed by and entangled amongst variations of the phrase 'Fast Fashun'. Below is a list of some of the names I came up with.
