These objects are by products of everything plastic, they are the plastic run before or after a hairbrush, juice bottle or chair is made. They represent everything and nothing. The plastic in its petroleum state has undergone millions of years of evolution to get to this stage. And then, it is discarded as a byproduct of societal needs.

John Dahlsen explores the duality of meaning and perception, and the illusion that is created in between.

The use of plastic materials and their place in the evolutionary motions of recycling are important to Dahlsen in constructing these images.