This is work by Tim Noble and Sue Webster. They create sculptures out of rubbish and use lighting to paint the picture. It is a personal journey of self discovery in which they take a theme of their own lives and create an entirely new form of self portraiture. 'Dirty White Trash' executed in 1998, is a sculpture made up of household rubbish, that the pair accumulated over a six month period. Discarded packages of fish fingers, empty hair dye bottles, and the occasional jar of peanut butter lie piled up one on top of the other, to form no other than a mountain of filth. Yet at the flick of a switch, the mountain of garbage is transformed into a miraculous shadow profile of the artists leaning back to back, gazing at the sky, enjoying a cigarette and a glass of wine. I like the way this work is two completely different things and that light alters its meaning.
