Fragments of You and Me
Fragments of You and Me by Studio Wombling is one of many public artworks on display across the City of Mississauga.
Studio Wombling, 2024
Plastic litter and concrete
J.C. Saddington Park, 53 Lake St, Mississauga
About the artwork
“In some hopefully not-too-distant future time, the problem of plastic waste will have been solved. Our 20th and 21st-century production of unimaginable quantities of such waste will likely make no sense to the people in that future. Mississauga’s J. C. Saddington Park, for example, was created out on the lake as a landfill of buried waste. The objects that make up that waste reflect our current yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows. In the future, however, citizens of that green earth will discover these objects — we have two empty pedestals from long-gone statues to consider here. A local authority has provided three plaques to help those citizens understand these objects, and to understand that distant past — our present — to understand the story of plastic.” – Studio Wombling
About the artists
Studio Wombling consists of Lara Hassani and Ameen Ahmed. Lara is an artist and architectural designer, with expertise in the circular economy, specifically waste, trash, and salvage in architecture and design. Her current research interests are vernacular architecture, education, and demolition salvage. Lara has an MArch from the University of Toronto. Ameen is an artist, curator, and historical researcher with research interests in urban politics, education, public art, public parks, public-private partnerships, monuments, and vandalism. Ameen is currently working on a PhD in architecture at the University of Toronto.
For more, visit the artist’s website.
More information
In 2023, the artists conducted a series of Litter Cleanups in J.C. Saddington Park and used the collected litter as part of the artwork fabrication.
Fragments of You and Me is part of an annual collaboration between the City’s Park Services Unit, Environment Unit and the Public Art Program.