Using a plastic bag to recreate the texture and form of water, the cyanotypes form a 12x18” piece that represents a plastic ocean. Plastic is so massively produced, consumed and discarded that while it is an obvious fact that plastic harms and is bad for the environment, the amount of plastic around us has become a norm. It has been camouflaged itself into the use of society and its consequences are often ignored or forgotten. But what we don’t realize is this: every plastic ever made still exists in some shape or form.
In such a fast-paced world, this piece aims to invoke and cause its viewer to pause: deciphering the piece as a whole and deciphering what it’s made out of in its individual squares. Playing on the opaqueness of plastic bags, wave-like textures could be achieved while retaining the look of a plastic bag. Cutting out transparencies and laying them in the shape of the world map, it signifies and reiterates the idea of how much plastic remains. In doing so, this piece hopes to remind its viewers to be more conscious in the way they consume, and how everything we consume and do has a consequence that’s permanently imprinted on our world.