Disposable Planet

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Woodcut Print, 44x90 each, 2006

This is a cigarette spinning as it is snuffed out. On the filter is the globe. So it is both the world spinning and the planet revolving. It seems that more and more of what we make is disposable. Poorly made, cheaper to produce than to repair, intentionally disposable products are on the rise, and some things are even designed to break after only a few years. Every, can, jar, and toothpick we take from this planet is valuable, But we have set up a system where it is cheaper to ship things around the world than to make them well locally. The world, it seems, is as disposable as a cigarette.