Ubiquitous is an adjective that describes seeing something everywhere, so much so that its presence is taken for granted. Dandelions are ubiquitous, they are everywhere, they survive being chopped and mowed, and their deep taproots mean that they also sometimes even survive being uprooted. Plastics are also ubiquitous. They are everywhere, sometimes visible, sometimes invisible, and they too endure.

Despite promises of recycling most plastics do not make it to a second life, instead representing an enduring record of extraction, carbon waste, and finally pollution. Recent studies say that microplastics are ubiquitous in both human and animal tissue. While we think about obsolescence mainly in terms of computer technology, obsolescence is also ubiquitous. There are so many things that have one use and are not used again that we don’t even notice them.

For example the beautiful silver mylar that makes up these coffee bags. They were acquired from Café Fixe, a coffee shop in Washington Square in Brookline. The owner, Maks saves them and sends them off by the pallet to be recycled because the town of Brookline does not recycle this kind of mylar. Knowing that they were there, waiting to be harvested, planted the seed of an idea for a project, which has bloomed into these dandelion inspired objects.