So. Rasquatche. This being. rather open ended prompt, I opted to fully commit to the “use only what you have” which I belive worked well for the underdolg, run-down sort of vibe.

Washed-up-never-has-been

this is a "rasquatche" display, utilizing cottonwood leaves devoid of  some chlorophyll, interspersed with drawings on used envelopes, old beer cans, and dice. It is meant to resemble the nuance of that individuals life.

So. Lets break down these artifacts. We have cottonwood leaves, discarded mail, a forgotten beer, some dice, and a crumpled bag of cottonwood leaves. Oh, and Steezus’ Christ’s Sword. The general idea is that these all share qualities of being considered “odds and ends” which is sort of a theme I leached from Rasquatche Rhetorics. I suppose it’s that these things can be beautiful, they can be useful, even though they’re seen as “nothings”.

The unwanted mail gave individuals pleasure by serving as a template, the leaves are dying, drying out, but they fill the world with colour. The dice, well, the dice are 666’d out because that’s sort of how I feel humans enter the picture, by capturing and containing these leaves, crumpling them into bags, discarding them, leaving them to rot, in unnatural fashions. Devilish. The Heineken is akin to the vices our species endorses in favour of the more natural beauties, or perhaps the less imposing sensations.

Plastic people in a plastic world, crinkling through the motions. Aesthetical murder.

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