Cell Phone Art

Artist Rob Pettit says he "creates cell phone art to high light the proliferation and waste of cell phones." I don't buy it. How does one get up each morning dedicated to the environmental consequences of cell phones? His works are fairly beautiful (a dirty word in certain art cliques these days); his emphasis on circles and process vaguely reminds me of Andy Goldworthy. And my guess is Pettit makes the work more for the process, that he is at least tangentially enchanted with the cell phone as an object.

Politically motivated  artwork is fine; it is even necessary, but the politics should dig beneath the surface argument. Pettit's artwork I enjoy. The apparent reasoning behind it, not so much.