Grab a cup! Grab a plate! Fill it with drink! Fill it with food!
The animals in this park welcome you, witnessing your revelry from afar. Out of their hiding places, they emerge: the pigeons, raccoons, and squirrels. They will relish your crumbs, collect your shiny treasures, make homes from discarded cups, and fight over the carcasses of the fried chicken you left behind. It doesn't take long for them to move in: they will have their own desperate party, competing to see who will take the most.
Trash cans overflowing, popped balloons hanging on a cat claw-covered chain link fence, paper plates piled with food, a birthday cake slice forgotten under a napkin, spilled wine spreading fast across the tablecloth—The Spoils are what's left when you leave the party early.
The Spoils consider what we leave behind, the single-use items that don't disappear when they are discarded. Set under the cast of a late afternoon sun, these scenes ponder the afterparty. Has everyone retreated, forgetting to clean up? Or have the humans disappeared in some catastrophic event? What happened is unclear but the evidence is incontrovertible: only humans leave parties (and messes) like this.
