Plastic History

Statement

History fascinates for its fluidity; its narratives continually reshaped by shifts in perspective, where fact and interpretation collapse into one another. In this work, plastic functions as both material and metaphor: a translucent skin over the past that preserves, distorts, and suspends what lies beneath. Like memory, it protects even as it obscures, creating a surface where what is visible remains just out of reach.

Its flexibility and resistance mirror the instability of historical truth. Glare warps color and form, and preservation becomes a subtle transformation, even a quiet erasure. History is held in tension, stretched between permanence and mutation.

The flag book operates as a container of recorded knowledge, yet it is treated as mutable; folded, layered, obscured, and rearranged. No longer singular or authoritative, it becomes a sculptural form to be handled and repositioned, introducing a performative dimension in which history is continuously rewritten rather than fixed.

Through plastic’s veil and the reimagining of these symbols, history is approached as memory: opaque, unstable, and in constant evolution. What is preserved is altered, what is revealed is mediated, and meaning remains in flux, shaped as much by the act of viewing as by the material itself.