REIMAGined WASTE, 2024

What began as simple beach walks and a desire to clean up the coastline evolved into something deeper. Warlond started collecting the strange and discarded items washed up on the shore —everything from baby bottles to light bulbs, soy sauce fish bottles, and even a toilet seat.
Over time, the process of cleaning up turned into an exploration of the stories these objects tell and the surprising connections they can form when seen together.
The resulting images aren’t about polished perfection. They capture the randomness and strange beauty of what has been left behind. Some are playful, some perplexing, but all offer a fresh perspective on the things we discard.

This is not about crafting art pieces as much as it is about presenting these objects in new ways that make us pause and consider them more closely.
There is a strange alchemy at play here: the changing tides that bring these objects back to us, where the sun, surf, and sand have reimposed new textures and deconstructed our shameful disposal of things.

These found objects have become part of the landscape—transformed, not just invisible forgotten debris.

This project is not about guilt or preachiness. It is about starting conversations through humour, surprise, and the odd fascination for the everyday things we leave behind.
By showing these objects in a new light, Warlond hopes to spark a more open dialogue about our relationship with waste, but in a way that invites curiosity rather than judgment.

Warlond is now looking to take this project beyond the gallery space, proposing these images as art wraps for construction areas along the coast. The concept centres around the transformation of temporary spaces into engaging, thought-provoking installations, encouraging viewers to reconsider the lasting presence of what we discard, sparking a broader conversation about how these materials infiltrate our surroundings.

By recontextualising these objects, Warlond wants to invite reflection on the everyday things we overlook. Her hope is that these images encourage a more open, curious exploration of our relationship with what we discard.

A work in progress…