WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

Van Tiggelen asks friends around the world to collect their hard plastic waste during one week. With one week’s plastic waste he creates an abstract map of the home city of the ‘plactic-collector’. The volume of plastic waste collected by a person dictates the size of the artwork. The more plastic waste, the larger the canvas. Plastic is mainly made from crude oil. The artworks in this series are painted black, the color of crude oil. We can easily pave thousands of streets with the plastic waste we throw away. Nobody puts his or her nametag on the plastic waste. The paintings represent those imaginary nameless streets of plastic waste. Locations are added on the map below.