Sammy Polinsky and Sophia Day
Plastic Readymade
2025
Planned obsolescence and “shrinkflation” are now commonplace in our daily lives with corporations cutting costs and corners to increase profits. In the same vein, new construction housing is often critiqued to be poor quality and over-priced. This piece, a plastic readymade made in collaboration with an online shopping platform, is a critique of this garbage construction, a plastic-formed facsimile of a house. It’s not lazy, it’s conceptual.