about plastic
In the midst of creating work for Covidity, my younger daughter became acutely interested in the subject of plastic pollution. She was homeschooling at the time since her school was closed during the first lockdown in New York City. She watched a video about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which stirred her curiosity and caused her much distress.
These images are a medium to communicate this discomfort to the viewer and underscore the urgency for action to save our planet for future generations. To demonstrate how entrenched our daily lives are in the use of plastic, I used everyday plastics, mostly single-use, to create her wardrobe and as props. The overall indication is that there is plastic in what we wear, what we eat, how we shop, and in our water. The imagery is a look at our reality from the perspective of a child– the one that will inherit the consequences of the degradation being caused by the present generation of adults.
