conceptualization blog
BRAINSTORMING MINI-INSTALLATION
a tiny environment with a big impact
Thirteen-year-old plastic picker in Manilla, 2013
Its not just about the animals, its about humanity being humane. Around 8 million tons of plastic bottles, bags, toys and other plastic rubbish ends up in the world’s oceans each year, scientists claim. Because of the difficulties in working out the exact amount, since much of it may have sunk, the scientists said the true figure could be as much as 12.7 million tons polluting the ocean each year
90 Percent Of Sea Birds Have Eaten Plastic!
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It smells like food to fish
Matthew Savoca, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and lead author of the study, told the Guardian: Fish may be seaking out plastic as food because, “When plastic floats at sea its surface gets colonized by algae within days or weeks, a process known as biofouling; this algae produces and emits DMS, an algal based compound that certain marine animals use to find food.
Preliminary Ideas
Container-Nest
Beach micro-plastics
Media and Materials
Plastics will be collected from nearby beaches; paying specifically to smaller micro-plastics found in the sand and waste obviously carelessly left by recent beach-goers.
Plastic items will be used to create the sculptural elements of the installation. To date the only medium I have found capable to hold such small debris together has been resin.
What are we looking at? Option A
option a
The plastic pieces will be stuffed into an eggshell that will then be filled with resin, hopefully resulting in three eggs of some aesthetic quality. These three eggs will be held in a bird nest container. The bird nest is a found object found on the ground after a storm. The nest contains some plastic woven into it. If needed, additional pieces of plastic will be inserted. This bird nest will then be placed in an area of high plastic traffic (supermarket, refrigerator, pantry).
additional thoughts:
a stand will be made out of the remaining found beach debris. This stand will be in the shape of a birds digestive track.
upon entering the room Bob Marley’s song Three Little Birds will be playing.
three little birds
Bird Digestive System
What are we looking at? option b
option b:
items will be collected and manipulated into the form of a parent bird feeding its chick. However the only part of the animal the viewer will see is the beak attached to its digesting track. This will be suspended within a container made of larger pieces of trash (all painted a neutral color to bring attention to the hanging object). From the mouth of the parent bird will be a fish also made out of plastic debris. in order to pull this off successfully, the hanging object must look like a scientific specimen, accurate and labeled.
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