Ripley Whiteside
Cicada, 2016
Impression à pigments de qualité archive / Archival pigment print
6 1/2 x 6 in
16.5 x 15.2 cm
16.5 x 15.2 cm
Series: Meaningful Drinks
© Ripley Whiteside
The title 'Meaningful Drinks' was a tagline for a fancy juice brand, can't remember what the brand was called but I thought it was silly for juice to take itself...
The title 'Meaningful Drinks' was a tagline for a fancy juice brand, can't remember what the brand was called but I thought it was silly for juice to take itself so seriously. After the initial still-life I started to make tiny still lifes from my recycling bin, sort of a catalog of all the waste I was generating without thinking about it, sometimes juxtaposing trash with natural objects, many of which were drinks that marketed themselves as 'all natural'.