Marker Up The World

Marker Up the World is a collage style image of a singular Prismacolor brand marker. Prisma colour markers are typically the industry standard when it comes to hand sketching in the interior design and architecture world. On average a student in one of these programs can go trough as many as 10 markers a year which all end up in landfills.

While this image is not displaying the markers is their final resting place the image does show the haunting reality of the by-products of the academic world. These by-products of waste can be categorized as pens, markers, highlighters etc.

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 “Objects gain and lose something when they are abandoned as rubbish. What they lose is related to their presentation by advertising as desirable commodities: newness, wholeness, a distinction from other objects, or at least a resistance to arbitrary merging.”. This quote from Julian Stallabrass encapsulates specific thoughts around the ideas of trash created by the educational system