AIRSPACE: Understanding the landfill crisis


A series created by Jordan during her tenure as Artist in Residence for the City of Ottawa

The Catalogue

  • Airspace I

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    Salvaged magazines, paper, clothing, barnboard.
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  • Buried Sun

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    Salvaged magazines, paper, jewellery, found objects, and commercial canvas print.
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  • Landscape at Night

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    Salvaged magazines, paper, clothing, book pages, jewellery, beads, found objects, stretched canvas.
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  • What Makes America?

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    Salvaged upholstery, fabric, denim, toys, objects, nail polish, on a discarded floor board.
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  • Spring

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    Salvaged clothing, book pages, jewellery, nailpolishes, magazines, paper, stretched canvas.
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  • Material Girl

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    Salvaged ‘vegan leather’, cosmetics, nail polishes, extruded 3D printer plastic, on a discarded floorboard.
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  • Racoon: Full Bellies

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    Salvaged iron lantern, bedsheets, textiles, and extruded plastic leavings from 3D printing.
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  • Coyote

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    Salvaged broken lamp, bedsheets, leftover cotton string, faux fur.
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  • Crow I

    Salvaged broken lamp, bedsheets, curtains, leftover cotton string, faux fur.
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  • Fox

    Salvaged broken lamp, bedsheets, leftover cotton string, faux fur.
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  • Gull

    Salvaged broken lamp, bedsheets, leftover cotton string, faux fur.
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  • Vulture

    Salvaged broken lamp, bedsheets, leftover cotton string, faux fur.
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Portrait of a Department
Jordan Danger
8’x2’x2’
Materials: Acrylic tube holding salvaged paper, clothing, and materials from the SWS department.

his piece is the centerpiece of the Airspace series. It’s a portrait of the Solid Waste Services department, built using the same method they use to manage landfill space: compression and vertical stacking. Every material in the sculpture was discarded by the department itself, making it a literal and symbolic representation of the organization. Visually, it resembles a core sample — layered, dense, and stratified — which also works metaphorically, since both core samples and portraits capture a moment in time.