The sculptures made with plastic trash bags by Khalil Chishtee

Khalil Chishtee is an artist from Pakistan who shares her time between her homeland and New York. As artists, she uses a curious material to create her sculptures: plastic bags. Those plastic trash bags that virtually everyone uses.

Using black and white plastic trash bags, Khalil Chishtee creates life-sized figures who seem to be melting, deteriorating, being in ruins. This is very interesting and kind of symbolic, in at least two ways. First, the visual of deteriorating and decaying figures resembles our idea of trash, garbage. Second, there is this irony of creating melting and deteriorating objects using plastic, a material known for lasting years in nature, polluting and creating damage in nature.

Appreciate the sculptures made with plastic trash bags by Khalil Chishtee:

Images from Khalil Chishtee's website. Indicated by Beautiful/Decay - Khalil Chishtee’s Plastic Bag Sculptures.