Kitchen Scraps #4 by Deborah Worthy-Collins

Kitchen Scraps #4 is an eco-print created from waste materials sourced from the artist's home, including onion peels, recycled plastic netting, soursob weeds, turmeric, lemon, tea, and rust. Framed with wood stained in eco dye, the piece explores the interplay between domestic, social, biological, ecological, and psychological realms, through the lens of Systems Theory. Through a process mirroring the examination of identity and belonging, both socially and ecologically, the artist reflects on their responsibilities to themselves, humanity, and the more-than-human world within the framework of social structures and systems.