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Cheap Xenical Online Touchmarks: The Social Life of Plastic Baskets is a cultural and artistic investigation of a transnational object: the plastic basket. Cheap Xenical Online The intention in use for a plastic basket could be for ordering one’s daily detritus. However, the function calculated in Cheap Xenical Online the knowledge of production may be, and is often times, re-imagined as it is consumed. The ‘social life’ acquired through Cheap Xenical Online an object’s production, consumption, and domestication is reflected in the reinvention of use and meaning as an object crosses cultural Cheap Xenical Online borders and is exchanged within new contexts.

Cheap Xenical Online Cheap, accessible, and ubiquitous, plastic baskets epitomize our utilitarian reality. The plastic woven pattern, as simulacrum to the handicraft of Cheap Xenical Online basketry, evokes a longing for that which the hand once crafted. Each object in Touchmarks: The Social Life of Plastic Cheap Xenical Online Baskets is cast from fragments of plastic baskets. Re-appropriating the woven pattern as third generation to its handicraft source, wicker Cheap Xenical Online to plastic to pewter, challenges assumptions of what is ‘real’ and ‘authentic’. These re-appropriated objects begin to reclaim the space Cheap Xenical Online between what is lost and what is re-invented in relation to notions of authenticity, labor, production, history, and craft.

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Submitted to Summer 2010 Showcase