Kate Egnaczak

Culotte Gown, Collection Clothes

graphite on marker paper

8″ x 10″

2022

How do we quantify the human impact on a place? The “Collection Clothes” is a series of conceptual garments created for the collection and categorization of trash and other debris found on walking surfaces. Designed to complement and maximize walking as artistic practice, “Culotte Gown” is the first in a series of work clothes visually mending denim segments to elongated vinyl pockets. The garment’s ultra-wide fluted leg design incorporates varying elongated see-through pockets, a detachable train, and a fanny pack to add capacity. Imagine the artist cloaked in this, moving down a road or sidewalk, collecting artifacts of human consumerism.

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Kate Egnaczak

McMud Meal (Park Picinic)

Inspired by: Henry George Todd, Study of Strawberries Mixteca-Puebla Artist, Tripod Bowl Matt Siber, McDonalds

debris found in Elm Park’s mere ponds: styrofoam take-out container, McDonald’s cup, lid, and straw, bottle safety ring, waxed bag, single use shopping bags, caution tape, dirty, and leaf litter, mud burger made with Elm Park mud

12″ x 12″ x 12″

2024

One all-mud patty, special “sauce”, lettuce, cheese, tomato, served on a plastic bun, with caution tape fries, and an extra large dirt drink. The “extra value” in this recognizable fast food meal is an abrupt reminder of the consumerism that motivates our tastebuds, yet are as nutrient-deficient as mud and trash it is made from. The mud burger patty, baked in the sun, may have the highest nutrient content. It’s absurd, yet so close to reality. Ubiquitous, almost ceremonial, vessels in the grab-and-go culture, still muddy from the mere ponds in Elm Park, inspired the culinary creation.

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