Your first reaction at seeing Kalliopi Monoyios’s stunning pieces will be glee. And then comes the guilt.
Endless single-use plastics: the familiar packaging that holds Doritos, diapers, Oreos, soda pop, toilet paper, coffee, bread, dish soap, tortillas and juice; extension cords, telephone and speaker wire; tape, chewing gum, mesh and fiber; and yards and yards of dental floss. Her media is excess.“Patterns of Consumption” continues through June 26 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton.
Take the show’s centerpiece, titled “Year of Plastic, Family of Four,” which is made, as that straightforward title suggests, from all of the single-use plastic a local family saved — instead of discarded — from January through December 2019. It is full of vivid, cheery hues: Chips Ahoy! blue, Reese’s orange, Twizzlers red, Lay’s yellow, Snickers brown.
There is also “Drops in the Ocean,” which reconfigures potato chip, ice cream and dried fruit bags into a series of interlocking circles that come together into a wall-mounted assemblage measuring 10 feet wide and 5 feet tall.
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