Floors and Skies of a London Office are made of discarded office tiles. This series signify for me the ultimate use of these tiles after using them for the Living Sculptures: I wanted to make a 2D piece with them, seeing ¨the painting¨ (the object) as the ultimate use of the reused materials.
Floors and Skies of a London Office are made of 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.
RAF tiles (Raised Access Flooring) 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 - II.
Photo-transfers onto tiles.
120 x 180 cm.
2022.
FALLEN SKY.
Photo transfers into tiles.
135 x 150 x 62 cm.
2020.
Fallen Sky portrays 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, Art Academy Graduation Show (detail image), 2020, Former Newington Library, London.