After using the RAF tiles to make living sculptures , I still had the tiles. I needed to make an ultimate use of them, save them again from obsolescence before their inevitable end at the landfill.
RAF tiles are commonly used in offices as they can be easily removed to change the electric cables placed underneath them. They are very difficult to recycle and their lifespan is 25 years, when they are replaced by their young sisters.
These tiles are just an example of the quantity of trash that is thrown into the landfill everyday; here is specifically portrayed the construction sector waste. Construction and housing sectors represent 38% of carbon emission in the UK. Besides that, around 35 million tonnes of non recyclable waste derived from the construction sector ends up in landfill every year in this country.
Floors and Skies of a London Office - I.
Photo-transfers onto tiles.
120 x 180 cm.
2022.
Floors and Skies of a London Office I & II are the ultimate use of this tiles; I wanted to make a 2D piece with them, seeing ‘the painting’ (the object) as the ultimate use of the reused materials.
To make them I photo-transferred an image of the sky onto A4 B&W papers, the type of paper commonly used in offices to print everyday documents. Ideally the office tiles will go back to an office as a painting: the image of sky placed into the tile grid gives the image of a window, but the quality of the image is slightly dissipated creating a feeling of disconnection.
Floors and Skies of a London Office - II.
Photo-transfers onto tiles.
120 x 180 cm.
2022.
Fallen Sky was the first series of using photo-transfer as a technique for the tiles.
They show an image of a broken reflection of the sky: looking in different directions the sky is incomplete wherever you look. I wanted to create distance between the subject (the sky), the object that portrays the sky (the tiles) and the viewer.
Fallen Sky.
Photo transfers into tiles.
135 x 150 x 62 cm.
2020.