INTRO: bananas, more than food.

Ba Na Na

Please repeat, this time slowly: Baa naaa naaaaa

And then much, much faster: BA/NÁ/NÁ!

It almost feels as if your hips begin to move to the lush Caribbean rhythms of: Chá-chá-chá, Bá-ná-ná

‘Guess this crazy skirt of mine, is the thing driving me mad …

Can you feel it, too, gal?

... Cannot? No surprise.

Like almost no other, Bananas embody the so-called Western colonial era (When it did stop? When it began?) and have a well-earned chapter in the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Once a rarity and exotic, we now see them in the supermarket, the media, the streets, the arts, and our plates. Banana overload. So much that we no longer notice them: life as usual.

Eventually, I learned that banana peel fiber could absorb heavy metals from polluted water; a handful of research teams were into it. This sparked my curiosity; given my experience working with vegetal fibers to do paper, I decided to process and paste the peels out.

Much still polluted water flowed under the planet’s bridges until the final work was done. I am presenting in this script the becoming process of the mix-media installation with a soluble sculpture named “Wasted Away.”

“Wasted Away” is one work of a series signaling the existence of people, knowledge, and new technologies ready and capable of generating change and staying idle while the world as we know it falls apart. In this sense, “Wasted away” is intended as an appeal to promptly react with the articulation and execution of the myriad of new and proven methods already available and aimed at regenerating a devastated global landscape.