18 x 11 inches
Oil on a metal oat can

On June 2, 2022 I got to work at the Alexandria Museum of Art, where I had an internship for the summer. When I got there Maddy, the collections manager, informed me about a ‘political stunt’ that was found when they got to work that morning. Both of the main entrances to the parking lot of AMoA were blocked off with two blue oil cans. One of the cans had a cardboard box around it that said “way to show off the city’s trash! couldn’t put a little fence around the art” None of us knew who did this. Both the box and the oil can were addressed to different locations. We assumed there was a third person involved not including the people that were listed on the labels. Whoever did this was trying to shed light to the ‘beautiful’ city dumpster in front of the AMoA. I decided to take the blue oil can because I wanted to turn it into a piece of art, but I did not know what I wanted to do with it. I decided to use it as a way to depict what trash can do to our environment.