Focused on the accelerated use cycle — production, consumption, disposal — of plastics, Sarah Elise Hall’s current studio practice involves the collection of recycled and discarded plastic containers, revived as ready-made moulds. Casting from the same container multiple times, each resultant ‘slab’ replicates the subtle industrial contours of the chosen plastic form, punctuated by instances of erosion and pulverization achieved through her organic casting method and choice of constituent material (pigment, marble dust, binder). Using mineral pigments such as malachite, chrysocolla and calcite, and embedding sites of erosion, Hall’s dense and chromatic marble slabs allude to the earth’s geologic record, one that without correction may, as her casts eerily suggest, ultimately host the accumulated sediment of fossilized plastics.
Pyromorphite Corrugated Slab, 2021
marble, porcelain powder, dry pigment, eco resin
20.5 x 16.5 x 2 inches
Corrugated Constellation (Turquoise), 2021
marble, porcelain powder, dry pigment, eco resin
20.5 x 16.5 x 2 inches
Sulphur Striation, 2021
4 elements; marble, porcelain powder, dry pigment, eco resin
45 x 56 x 2 inches, installed
Diptych in Chrysocolla, 2021
2 elements; marble, porcelain powder, dry pigment, eco resin
20.5 x 16.5 x 2 inches each