Scott Kilgour

When I walk through the streets of Bushwick – and see the piles of black trash bags – all I see is the explosion of abstract light. I started drawing trash bags in 2010. Initially, I approached this subject matter from an environmental perspective. Over a decade later, I'm revisiting this subject with a different view, using black trash bags as the threshold to an aesthetic experience.

Trash Vision asks us to be reflective about what we "see." Not unlike John Chamberlain, who transformed crushed cars into sculptures to transport the imagination, Trash Vision is the embodiment of where we find beauty in possibility and abstraction. "The artist's imagination is not concerned with seeing things, but with seeing an abstraction called 'the beauty' in things," said Northrop Frye in Fearful Symmetry, a study of William Blake. Scattered abstract light exploding on the surface of a black plastic bag sparks my imagination…I see faces, figures, fantasy – things completely unrelated to trash. As Leonardo da Vinci said – it should not be hard for you to stop and look at the ashes in the fire… or the clouds in the sky…and find some really marvelous ideas. Let yourself go – explore the abstract light – and tell me what you see. Trash Vision.

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