Description:

Debris is an interactive, collaborative installation which is being created as a response to the problems presented by single use plastic.

The work reflects the literal problem of plastic in marine environments while offering a symbolic representation of the chemical body burdens carried by wildlife and humans alike. In presenting these issues, we are asked to consider misplaced notions of “disposability”, calling in to question consumer driven waste which has devalued what is in fact a very important material.

Participate: Make a Fish

Explore the Marine Food Web by drawing or painting a marine creature. A large array of fish, crustaceans, birds and mammals all make up the web and are all affected by chemical body burdens represented here by plastic. Think of how you can incorporate re-purposed material into your creature. This way, we can make use of that which is normally disposed of without second thought.

Send a .jpg of your piece to [email protected].
In doing so, you will be releasing your creature into the “ocean”.

The images are transferred onto repurposed materials like foamcore and are used as the base of interactive installations.These installations are set up in educational institutions and gallery exhibitions. Through the installation, people may learn about how we contribute directly to this problem, even if we live inland, and how we are directly impacted through the chemical body burdens we carry. Participants are introduced to solutions on how to reduce exposure to chemicals in their own lives and how to lessen the environmental impacts from the source.
Similar to the processing of material in the actual ocean, images will be replicated, transferred, redistributed, distressed, and reworked as the instillation is plugged into educational programming and handled by participants.

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