The sea belongs to everybody. For almost every nation or culture, the sea was or is, prominently present from the past to the present. The sea inspires, gives and threatens. The sea has made history and will make more history. The oceans didn't need us for millions of years, but we have polluted them to an extent that they will need us to act swiftly on a worldwide scale. Humanity currently views the oceans as a bottomless garbage bin, where millions of tons of litter (plastics). Plastic in the ocean degrades into increasingly smaller fragments to become (micro-plastics), tiny particles that are invisible to the human eye. Eventually we speak of a "plastic soup" which is currently found in all oceans, but also lakes and rivers. Eventually this ends up in our food supply. We are literally being served plastic soup, and this can make us incredibly sick.
The brief had been to create a sea object or a vessel that engages the public and starts a dialogue on this pressing problem. The Project had been undertaken in Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague, Netherlands by a group of four students and was executed on the scheveningen beach, The Hague.
