Michael Salter has been creating giant styrofoam robots, about 20 of them, for the past few years. His ‘Styrobots’ are personified trash who hang out in galleries and museums often doing things like meditating or just looking sad. The sculptures are a comment on the current state of consumer, technology, and information culture.
Salter’s statement explains his inspiration: “Every city and town has a street, never downtown, lined with strip malls, fast food, and discount stores. Here, I am inspired. It is the most prolific evidence of our current culture. As an obsessive observer I am fascinated, repulsed and hypnotized by the tidal wave of imagery that our visual culture crashes down upon us every day. I challenge this onslaught and examine it. I want to sort out the cacophony of visual noise and rethink meaning, motive, perception and narrative. In the middle of this infinitely chaotic flow of information, I have a nagging desire, the desire for truth and beauty.”
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Source: designfaves.com