Evan Morse

Garbage Truck

Inspired by: Evelyn Rydz, Gulf Pile John Willis, Recycled Realities 1

plaster, pigment

18″ x 16″ x 2″

2018

This relief sculpture depicts an everyday scene, a garbage truck picking up household waste. Usually, once our trash is out the door we forget it ever existed, but it’s something that certainly impacts our environment. Where does our household waste go and how much of it actually gets recycled? It’s easy to take a garbage service for granted, but just having regular garbage pickup is a luxury much of the world goes without, and this leads to more trash entering the environment.

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Evan Morse

Amanti, Ravenna

marble, pigment

16″ x 12″ x 1.25″

2024

This marble relief sculpture of a young couple uses symbolic imagery to suggest a mythical narrative, open to the viewer’s interpretation.

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Evan Morse

Checkout, Star Market

Inspired by: Jules Aarons, West End Meat Market Adriaen van Otade, Company in a Tavern

Hydrocal plaster, pigment

18″ x 16″ x 2″

2018

This relief sculpture shows an everyday scene of someone in the checkout of a supermarket. Part of my interest with this scene is that it brings to mind our relationship with our food sources. Most Americans are very removed from food production, and at the supermarket you can purchase a vast variety of food, some from distant places. This piece especially relates to ‘West End Meat Market’ and ‘Company in a Tavern’ because of the quotidian subject matter and how it is a record of a certain cultural place and time.

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