Two giant generic yet iconic Thank You bags are inflated by fans, filling them to capacity with air. To amplify these icons is to bring awareness to something we often dismiss, the excess of capitalism and its residual environmental waste by being caught in its beauty.

Instead of being mass produced they are hand sewn plastic and hand drawn oil inks.

Thank You Bags was originally exhibited in an all-female exhibition along with the Gorilla Girls and Yoko Ono.

This is a larger version of the bags that was originally created in 2014.

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Reed van Brunschot is a Peruvian/Dutch/American Visual Artist & Educator, working with sculpture, performance, installations, and video art. She received her MFA from the University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design in 2019 and her BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie voor het Kunst in Amsterdam in 2011. She has had exhibitions internationally and is currently based in Los Angeles.

Her artworks take on displacement, daily life through the ‘transitional moment’, one in which a given situation suddenly and unexpectedly changes, be it in form or in sentiment. By building relationships between unexpected elements, through materialization, or correlation to the viewer, there is an emphasis on a dialog between the human, and the absurd object. Speaking in quotidian symbolism, her practice is based on themes of childhood, home life and all things ephemeral.

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