one man’s trash
handwoven tapestry series
For everyone living in Rotterdam it’s an reoccurring and undeniable phenomenon: piles of bulky trash reappearing on the streets. It makes it more noticeable how much waste people throw out, and how much garbage leaves this city on a daily bases, compared to places where people are obligated to deal with this waste themselves. But it also gives a rare insight into peoples [former] belongings. These piles of waste fascinated me from the moment I moved here. It’s part of the social dynamic of living in this big city, people wandering by these piles take and add stuff from and to the pile, which makes it kind of poetic canvas. With this project ‘one man’s trash’ I documented piles of waste at the fleeing moment I passed them and immortalized the form language in an ongoing series of tapestries.
material: wool, cotton
clasien waas 2020 - now