Noelle Foden-Vencil engages the discarded as an ecological inheritance,

what endures, what is left behind, and what resists decomposition. Through sculpture, installation, and community engagement, she welds together art, waste, and place: tracing the afterlives of consumer culture and the contradictions of green capitalism. She works with plastic both as pollutant and as kin. In her work, she addresses plastic as a living artifact of petrochemical modernity, and deserving of her attention and respect.