This may look familiar to longtime readers, but the shimmering ocean of 60,000 compact discs was recreated by Paris-based artist Elise Morin for Kosice, Slovakia during White Night 2014. Should you have any AOL CDs leftover from their heydays, this might be an interesting way to dispose of them, or so we think.
Hand-sewing CDs together and putting them over inflated mounds resulted in this stunning environment. Depending on the illumination, the room can appear as a rippling wave or a desert of plastic. From the looks of things, this took many months, if not a year, of an entire team working together to get things just right.
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My first thought when I pondered a representation possible of the contemporary landscape turned into a desert of plastic, a symbol of the vision of western society in the second part of the 20th century. In that way, the CD is a very symbolic creation of this vision of the economy and of this period. The planned obsolescence, short-term technology, entertainment and use of polycarbonate married for better or for worse. The other issue is to represent an invisible landscape: the buried landscapes that are hidden or are aesthetic today: monumental waste disposal for example,” said Morin.
