one man's junk

New technology drives the manufacturing of new electronic products. But during this pursuit of the new and improved, what happens with the obsolete? In one man's junk, Toronto-based artist Laura Moore hand-carves blocks of limestone into outdated electronic devices. Contradicting the indispensability that most discarded electronics face, these tributes monument how once-valuable objects become undesired commodities. They question what happens when an object shifts from a prized possession to a nonentity, and asks you to find value amongst junk, waste and the discarded. Moore began one man's junk during an artist in residence program at the Thames Art Gallery. The artist states an ongoing interest in creating tensions between the permanent versus disposable and the interactive versus the inert. The limestone sculptures include a computer monitor, printer, and hard-drive tower measured to a 1:1 scale; stacked onto a wooden pallet.