Rigid branded boxes, designed and associated with e-commerce to next day delivery have been sealed, wrapped and extracted to leave sellotape cases.

What is left, are translucent wobbly cubes tentatively trying to maintain their shape, yet often sagging, even collapsing under their own weight.  The suggestion that this could be a fragile inter-dependency between powerful multinational corporations with their domestic and capitalized consumer is achieved through the labour of a utilized market workforce.  This vulnerable balance, often unacknowledged, yet indispensable, is all that holds today's markets together. 

Gasworks Lane, Ashford Saturday 1 August 2020 07.30-09.00 BST 

Ellingham Industrial Estate, Ashford Saturday 1 August 2020 06.30- 06.50 BST 

Warren Retail Park, Ashford Thursday 30 July 2020 20.15-20.45 BST 

Alternatively, since a box is used and perceived to hold anything from online shopping, to groceries; it is also used to store, memorabilia or to offer shelter.  Even an empty box is perceived to harbour something, a smell or the release of something, as with Pandora.  But a clear translucent box hermetically sealed will offer what?  A void, a slice in time, a captured split second at the moment it was sealed.  Likewise, the adhesive that holds the sculpture together linking the two layers of tape, capture the particles within the air at the moment of making along with the trace of the artist.  Anyone and everyone can become the artist, as mankind daily uses this everyday product to mend and patch their everyday lives.  These fragile sculptures sag, flatten and rip under the wear and tear of life but the sealed content within the glue evolves in relation to its environment as does all matter according to its own time line.
 
While this everyday inconsequential manmade product erodes like a stone, breaking into ever smaller particles, to alter the ecological balance and direction of evolution.  But it also endures like the survival instinct within all living matter, which opens questions as to wither non-living matter, like negative space needs to be revalued and perceived differently.

Flybridge Studios, Canterbury Monday 27 July 2020 11.00 - 12.30 BST 

Email [Lou] Customer Service, Amazon 2 June 2020 15.39 BST
"One moment . . .
I checked it here but we can’t disclose the sizes,
because the boxes are not for sale and if you create one,
it will be "like as" counterfeit. 
You may collect boxes if you order and you can measure
the length and width of that box."

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