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"I don’t believe in wasting anything!"
John D. Rockefeller

Urban mythology suggests that the first petro-chemical plastics resulted from John D. Rockefeller viewing plumes of flame and smoke whilst surveying his Standard Oil processing plant in the 1930s.  As it goes, he asked, “What’s burning?”, and it was explained to him that the company was burning off ethylene gas, a byproduct of the refining process. To which he proclaimed, “I don’t believe in wasting anything!” and “Figure out something to do with it!” And thus synthetic plastics, originating in the lab were brought into existence.  
My artwork features 'plastic bottles' of the nondescript type lurking in homes everywhere.  Except these versions are made with clay (the earliest material used to form vessels created by humans) and a mycelium counterpart (mycelium is the hyphae, vegetative part of the mushroom, networks of fine filaments grown together joining pulverized hemp shards into a solid mass).  This material is not-new, but contemporary applications are expanding as it is viewed as a possible environmentally friendly heir to synthetic plastic. 
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Anonda Bell