Typical associations: Nasty, smelly, disgusting, profusion
Manipulation: I wanted to change the associations you normally have with trash bags by giving them a different form and creating a dress out of it. My unexpected object is hence a dress out of trash bags. However, if we think about the materials most clothes nowadays are made of, it comes back to chemical fibers comparable to plastic instead of natural fibers like cotton. Those clothes made out of chemical fibers are often cheaper in price, but also entail disadvantages. Plastic is not air-permeable which has the consequence that people wearing it sweat and the humidity cannot leak. The process of creating the dress was not easy as the plastic bags were really thing and difficult to arrange in the way I wanted it to be.
New associations: Nice, valuable, fancy, unique