For his project DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash , Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley collected discarded plastic objects from New York beaches and transformed them into artefacts for an imaginary 19th-century maritime museum. Flip-flops, bottles and vapes were decorated to resemble carved ivory, or scrimshaw . "I grew up going to maritime museums and dive fisherman bars with my uncle around coastal New England. That was the aesthetic that I was exposed to," he says. Over the past few years, c...
For his project DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash , Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley collected discarded plastic objects from New York beaches and transformed them into artefacts for an imaginary 19th-century maritime museum. Flip-flops, bottles and vapes were decorated to resemble carved ivory, or scrimshaw . "I grew up going to maritime museums and dive fisherman bars with my uncle around coastal New England. That was the aesthetic that I was exposed to," he says. Over the past few years, c...
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