Plop Props’ take the form of cardboard cutouts made from reclaimed consumer packaging, creating facades of small mound-like memorials. Propped in unsavory nooks and crannies of downtown Orlando, they suggest family units within a larger community, and re-imagine our widespread experiences of displacement and economic struggle. ‘Plop Props’ also run a discourse between the gentrification and homogenization of our spaces, and the often-ignored homeless population living in downtown areas.
Artist Info
Dana Hargrove, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, now lives and works in Winter Park, Florida. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from Dundee University, Scotland. Her art and research focuses upon ideas that frame perceptions of the land and our sense of place and space.
Dana Hargrove