Much of my work reflects on the practices and visual language of the museum; in the plastic bag we see the antithesis of the museum display case in the way it de-values whatever it contains; it is a reviled commonplace object.
I have used the motif of the inflated plastic bag in several earlier works. It is used as a physical embodiment of enclosed gas or air. In this work it has two lives; in the daytime, it evokes the action of the wind in its inflation; illuminated at night, it appears to have caught a volume of the daytime sky. Viewed against the night sky, the artwork becomes analogous with our planet where a life-giving atmosphere is held within the void of space.