"To demonstrate the need to reuse everyday products as art rather than just discarding them.
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"Beautifully curated show. Kudos!
— Sylvia
"To illustrate the fleeting time we have. Earth to earth. Dust to dust.
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"It represents the cardboard boxes people live in. Very moving and dramatic
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"Common every day material we seldom notice but integral to our lives, like this family
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"Conservationistic tendencies
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"I don’t know, but the cardboard is all I can see.
— Louise
"I don’t know but it gives me the creeps
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"It’s a plentiful material but with a much potential and texture.
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"Simple yet complex material. Surprising layers
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"Because for many people the idea of peace is as easily torn apart and destroyed as cardboard.
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"I think the artist used cardboard for its sustainability
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"To reduce expense and difficulty. But why do this? There is no There there.
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"Texture rips solid lines great cheap materials too
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"Because it was inexpensive
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"Cardboard is a material that is inexpensive, discarded or recycled after use, plain, unexciting, and almost invisible, it is so ubiquitous. We USE cardboard, to transport goods from one place to another. The material reflects (some) dominant culture attitudes about Mexican Americans. White America uses MA’s to perform the necessary manual labor that supports our lifestyles. MA’s are used for labor, then discarded when they are too old or broken for use. We barely see these people, and don’t acknowledge their humanity as being equivalent to our own. This is a powerful and sad piece. When will we change?
— Anne
"Cardboard in contemporary terms, is ubiquitous and carries no class or societal status.
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"Cardboard is both delicate and strong like the mother and the societal expectations surrounding her circumstances.
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"So it could be recycled
— Eva
"Layering and its tactile qualities.
— Margaret
"Without reading about the art I thought, fenced in facing an unknown future that is eroding .
Why cardboard, it’s recycleable, expressing many things, to dust we return, the condition of our earth....
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"Cardboard need not be the throwaway material we’ve become accustomed to taking it for. This lends more permanence and meaning to what we so frequently take as a purely utilitarian commodity.
— Ben Sprows
"not All mediums are the same
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"Statement about sustainability
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"Good material for the goal of her work.
— Pablo
"THe artist wanted ro depict the struggles that single parents face in raising children in bourgeois America.
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"Transience, ephemerality
— David
"Moving boxes and lack of permanence. Discarded commodification.
All the negative impressions put on migrants who are the indigenous people of the land we claim
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"Liberty and justice are fragile and ephemeral man made constructs, just like cardboard
— Peter
"To show the frailty and degrading nature of liberty and justice.
— Susan Murphy
"Strength. Use of unique media to get point across
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"Because it has an median layer that give it that interesting look
— Dmitriy Generalov
"Perfectly urban, Chinatown
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"We don’t want to see the art ever again but if you make it better I will
— Ainslee
"The art is so amazing I never saw art like this before in my life
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"Very creative. I would interpret the medium as being recycling. It is lightweight..sure must have taken a lot to conceive it and then do it..so deliberate. I figure good artists must be a little ocd.
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"To emphasize the impermanence of organic matter, I.e., life and childhood
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"Because it’s disposable.
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"Logistically, it is an affordable medium that can lend itself to a large scale project. Symbolically cardboard disintegrates and shows the impermanence of time. It also may symbolize how the American government sees the people seeking asylum as dispensable, cheap, or not worthy of being treated with dignity and respect. It is beautifully executed and immediately understood.
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"Can be used for relief printing also when it starts to wear out.
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"Cheap and available
— Harrie
"I think it was so it could Stand and not fall down.
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"Because it helps it stay up.🍪
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"Use of recyclable material
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"The artist used cardboard to illustrate the fragility of human relations across borders.
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