Sourcing her materials from the plastic trash that litters the ocean, Pam Longobardi’s artwork transforms recognizable materials into something to be admired on the wall. Titled Ghosts of Consumption (for Piet M.), she references the modernist abstract painter Piet Mondrian, who created gridded abstract works. Mondrian advocated for eliminating recognizable imagery in art because he believed it impeded a work’s ability to be truly beautiful. Longobardi picks up on Mondrian’s stylistic adherence to the grid, but contradicts the modern master’s aesthetic ideals by creating something beautiful out of the easily recognizable trash of the everyday.