I exclusively work with plastic trash discarded in Denmark. I work sculpturally and use my hands with a material that is traditionally only shaped by industrial machines. The development of new techniques and ways of molding plastic is the center of my practice, and I borrow techniques commonly associated with textiles, clay, and pottery.

My love for plastic trash as a material started during my thesis at The Royal Academy. I looked into the vast amounts of trash created in renovations of retail stores. Originally, I set out to recycle as much of the construction waste as possible, but my focus soon landed on plastic because it was almost always burned.

My work and investigations led to discovering that the main hurdle for recycling plastic in Denmark was salaries and operational costs, which made it hard to compete with the recycled plastic processed in The Global South. I set out to develop techniques that would give the plastic a monetary value and make it ‘worth’ recycling.

It sparked my love for plastic trash as a material.

As a discarded material, it is not worth much for most people, but it is for me. In theory, it is also ‘worth’ a lot to the earth because many resources are taken out of it to make the material, and burning something that was so costly to produce is just crazy.

Copenhagen / Barcelona