Creativity can turn something as awful and destructive as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into objects worthy of any art gallery.
It takes two artists to show us that there is actually something beautiful about plastic… and it seems this has little to do with physical beauty. If you forget for a minute that plastic pollution in the oceans is a real problem, plastic is – whether we like it or not – a major player in our daily lives. This is what makes it intriguingly beautiful.
Today, mass consumerism has led to a global society that prefers to get their water in a plastic bottle and always expects to get a little plastic fork with their pre-packaged salad. It can take plastic hundreds if not thousands of years to decompose, yet we produce and dump more and more into our oceans each year. It is a constant stream of human residue and history getting unceremoniously fed to our oceans.
In theory, every bit of synthetic plastic that has been created over the past 100 years is still somewhere on this Planet… and it is the stories and history behind every bit of this synthetic by-product of human progress that turns mundane old hair rollers into descriptive art.
This interesting collection of ‘green’ art projects is the work of Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang. For 10 years, the couple has been collecting bits of plastic debris and transforming them into works of art to highlight the deep crisis that affect our oceans.
Learn more about the story behind their creations on their Website, BeachPlastic
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