Torn apart and starting to disintegrate, these human figures almost seem to be melting (or even weeping) away. They are troubling and look hopeless and yet, somehow, still beautiful. Artist Khalil Chishtee uses trash bags, grocery bags and plastic sheets to create these eerie sculptures. Knowing that, in spite of time passing, plastic remains almost the same, he uses it to represent the idea of identity, hoping to show that, when it’s all said and done, what we all are is human. Chishtee says, “For the first time I have used trash or recycled bags as my medium because no matter how many times I recycle plastic, it will remain plastic only, it will not change. So why do we change after being replaced? We change names, religion, language and even emotions. Why can’t we also remain ‘human beings’ that we essentially are?”
[via My Modern Met]
