"Chasing rainbows - this beautiful impossible pursuit"

(Pogon za tecza - ta piekna niemozliwa gonitwa)

From February 2004 to February 2005, Pamela collected plastic in Warsaw, Poland. She began by purchasing cheap foods in plastic packaging. Removing the food from it’s packaging, she placed cookies and instant noodles and crisps into clear bags with labels that said: "Please can you help with this project by eating this food, since I need the packaging to make art with". Pamela also collected plastic rubbish from the streets and parks. Through personal contacts, plus advertisements in newspaper and on radio, she asked inhabitants of the capital to give her bags from shops and food packaging – from frozen vegetables to potato chips to candy wrappers, anything that was supple enough to be sewn.

These plastic bags were cut into patches of colour and then sewn together using a sewing machine. Incorporating abstract images and Polish words selected by participants, the final eleven artworks were displayed in shop windows across the city, making a line crossing many different neighbourhoods and running perpendicular to the Vistula River. The shops involved were varied: a music club, a store selling windows, a coffee house, a laundrette, a hairdresser, an engraver, a pool hall, a wedding dress shop, a chemist, a vet and a shoe store. During the exhibition, which ran from 18 May - 30 June 2005, Pamela conducted events at each of the venues, holding conversations with the owners. A DVD documenting the project is available.