Trash of Fame is a project and campaign exploring consumerism, waste systems, aspiration, and environmental neglect. Currently making the World’s Largest handbag, a monumental art piece constructed from discarded textile materials, the project transforms waste into a luxury symbol at impossible scale, forcing audiences to confront the contradiction between desire and destruction.
The handbag serves as both sculpture and metaphor. It reflects how society often glamorizes consumption while ignoring the environmental and human consequences hidden beneath systems of excess. By reimagining waste as an object of prestige, the work disrupts traditional ideas of value and questions why discarded materials  and often discarded communities remain invisible until transformed into spectacle.
The project is inspired by the growing textile waste crisis affecting Ghana and many parts of Africa, where mountains of secondhand clothing and fashion waste continue to overwhelm communities, waterways, dumpsites, and ecosystems. Rather than approaching the issue through statistics alone, Trash of Fame uses emotional scale, symbolism, visual tension, and cultural storytelling to create public engagement. The project is designed not only as an artwork, but as a movement capable of generating dialogue, awareness, participation, and behavioral reflection