Hannah Slone's "A Dress Made From Waste"
Artist Statement
This dress was made using plastic shipping/storage materials. I collected them over a month's period of time from the shipments the store I worked in had received. I made this dress in order to raise awareness of how much waste we generate and the amounts of plastic pollution we create. I interlaced the plastic together using grommets and sashes. The sashes are compromised of white dead-stock fabric that I naturally dyed yellow with turmeric. I intended for the dress to be able to fall apart with one pull of a sash, littering the floor with plastic.
Materials Used
Plastic shipping/storage materials, bubble wrap, grommets, white scrap fabric, turmeric