The cultural detritus piled up everywhere, to be recycled, cherished, mocked and travestied, provides small — but nonetheless real — compensation for the spiritual deficits of modern life.
Detritus piled about three feet high — a mélange of crushed energy drink cans; bottles of water and, in at least one case, vodka; mounds of wrappers and paper cups; and what appeared to have once been a white T-shirt.
Finally, a monumental, four-panel photograph shows detritus piled up at the backwash of canal sluice gates in a faded New England industrial town.
Lizzy Waronker: Detritus | This new series of found-object sculptures emerges from the junk pile of day-to-day life - broken crockery, yellowed photographs, tattered mink vestments and all.
In Self-Portrait Running Amok the roof is coming down, detritus is piling up, and in the process we're getting rid of things we don't need anymore, like the Pentagon and Exxon Mobil headquarters and all those oil spills.
Kathleen Moore, dressed head to toe in a white "bunny suit," the kind that hazardous-materials workers wear, steps gingerly through dust piles, mounds of singed papers and the scattered detritus filling her beloved loft at 125 Cedar Street, the closest apartment building to what were the twin towers.
A group of stewards are at work with brooms, tutting as they sweep the detritus into big piles.
Spit it out!" I furtively deposited the half-chewed leaf in a nearby pile of detritus.
