Silver Wings

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Exploring the potential behind electronic waste and responding to contemporary technological development, Silver Wing is a kinetic sculpture collection built by recycled electronic components from discarded printers, computers and keyboards, etc. As social and cultural researcher Gay Hawkins wrote in her book The Ethics of Waste in 2005, “What we want to get rid of also makes us who we are.” Nowadays people are accustomed to the “easy convenience” brought by technology. And the economic rhetoric tends to promote technology as sustainable and labor-saving devices, all in the name of freeing people from heavy-duty and repetitive jobs. However, the new technology has imperceptibly framed our habitual way of life from one generation to another.

The idea of combining electric-waste with children’s toys builds the conversation between technological extension and childhood development through transforming the technological trash into the object that people are familiar with in their childhood. The way of emotionally framing the discarded electronic waste encourages the viewers to notice what we usually ignore and to remind people of the survival crisis of the next generation.