Reflections Program | The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University | Second Tuesday of every month, 2 p.m. |
My 86-year-old father and I are cutting up, causing a commotion at the end of a long table where we are creating a piece of art, alongside a group of other Nasher Museum of Art visitors.
It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and we are moving small pieces of plastic—broken CD cases, six-pack lids, discarded toys—so that they fit into a stencil in the shape of the United States. Our process is inspired by an artwork we saw earlier on our museum tour: artist Tony Cragg’s “Real Plastic Love,” a piece where the artist uses reclaimed bits of plastic to create two dynamic, dancing figures…