Royal B

Royal B (2026)

Materials: Paper bag, Topo Chico glass bottle, salsa containers, coffee cup (hidden), spent coffee grounds, foil, Spanish moss, Ball moss.

Dimensions: Variable.

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Suspended between consumption and renewal, Royal B transforms the remnants of an ordinary midday meal into a small ecology of reflection. Each material—the paper bag, glass bottle, foil, and moss—bears the trace of both utility and excess, reassembled here as a living reliquary.

The work continues Bryce Benton’s practice of resourceful waste management as ritual, treating refuse not as detritus but as narrative medium. The familiar textures of a Royal Blue Grocery lunch—the shimmer of foil, the translucence of takeout containers—become strata in a quiet cycle of decomposition and rebirth.

Spanish and Ball moss thread through the composition, softening the industrial fragments with living persistence. The hidden coffee grounds, wrapped like a buried seed, suggest potential energy: a slow alchemy of what was spent becoming fertile again.

In this humble constellation of leftovers, the artist proposes a new kind of value system—where even a sandwich’s packaging participates in the long tail of care.