Over 20 crew members and volunteers spent a week inflating thousands of colorful repurposed plastic bags with Austin-based artist Virginia Fleck, who has been working with plasticbags since 2002. With factory rejects and donations, they created a low tech,eye-popping artwork that was both humorous and disconcerting—a gleeful explosion of consumerist excess in which Fleck examines social and environmental issues.

Festival attendees saw OVERFLOW! as an intriguing call to action to use less plastic and reuse the plastic we do have. The completed installation included three components throughout the festival grounds—the floating lily pad bag assemblage in front of City Hall, a monumental bag curtain frothing from the roof down the side of the SCPA building exterior, and two palm trees behind City Hall decked out in a playful striped pattern made of bags encircling their trunks.

Artist Virginia Fleck
Scottsdale Arts Festival

photo by Andrew Urban	photo by Andrew Urban	photo by Andrew Urban
photo by Andrew Urban	photo by Andrew Urban	photo by Andrew Urban

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