Carrie Dickason is a Detroit-based artist

Current methods of manufacturing leave the landscape littered with synthetic materials. I look for the the beauty perceived in idealized nature and find it echoed in the manufactured world. I scavenge, harvest and process trash to be transformed into imaginary landscapes and structures made from a variety of materials such as: living grass, carpet, plastic packaging, automotive rubber and tape. I hope that on some level the ephemeral qualities of these materials comment on the fragility and malleability of human lives and their environment. Through the exploration and understanding of waste culturally, economically and globally, I represent serious issues in a playful way. By layering old with new, natural with synthetic, I am interested in developing a language of strata to generate conversation regarding consumption and disposal; nature and culture; the present and the future.