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Venice in a Bottle: Raising Awareness about Plastic...
Category: RE-act
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Title:
Venice in a Bottle: Raising Awareness about Plastic...
Venice in a Bottle: Raising Awareness about Plastic...
Author:
Monica Carvalho
Monica Carvalho
Category:
RE-act
RE-act
Description:
For this work, I reused a plastic bottle to create a digital photomontage about the issue of plastic pollution in rivers and oceans, taking the popular city of Venice in Italy as an example. An estimate of 50,000 tourists pass through Venice every day. These people consume mass-produced plastic goods, a lot of which end up in the canals of the beautiful Italian city. This is only one example of the terrible effect of plastic pollution in the world. Every MINUTE, one trash truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans. This is a fact that not many people are aware of. Did you know that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish? As many fish and other organisms cannot distinguish plastic items from food, they often starve because they don't digest the plastic, which fills their stomachs and prevents them from eating real food (source for the facts above: www.earthday.org). Therefore, my work 'Venice in a Bottle' hopes to demonstrate how the simple act of purchasing an item made of plastic - say a water bottle - can have a huge effect on the Earth's ecosystem and sustainability. In the photomontage, Venice is depicted as a miniature city in comparison to a large plastic bottle. This is a metaphor for the raging issue of plastic pollution. You can interpret the photo in two ways: either Venice was encapsulated in the bottle, trapped; or Venice is making an effort to reduce plastic consumption so it is getting slowly out of the bottle. It depends on your actions: if you choose to consume less plastic, or if you carry on consuming plastic. My artwork is a call for action: if you don't stop consuming plastic, it will consume you. It will consume you, the animals, the environment, the planet.
For this work, I reused a plastic bottle to create a digital photomontage about the issue of plastic pollution in rivers and oceans, taking the popular city of Venice in Italy as an example. An estimate of 50,000 tourists pass through Venice every day. These people consume mass-produced plastic goods, a lot of which end up in the canals of the beautiful Italian city. This is only one example of the terrible effect of plastic pollution in the world. Every MINUTE, one trash truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans. This is a fact that not many people are aware of. Did you know that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish? As many fish and other organisms cannot distinguish plastic items from food, they often starve because they don't digest the plastic, which fills their stomachs and prevents them from eating real food (source for the facts above: www.earthday.org). Therefore, my work 'Venice in a Bottle' hopes to demonstrate how the simple act of purchasing an item made of plastic - say a water bottle - can have a huge effect on the Earth's ecosystem and sustainability. In the photomontage, Venice is depicted as a miniature city in comparison to a large plastic bottle. This is a metaphor for the raging issue of plastic pollution. You can interpret the photo in two ways: either Venice was encapsulated in the bottle, trapped; or Venice is making an effort to reduce plastic consumption so it is getting slowly out of the bottle. It depends on your actions: if you choose to consume less plastic, or if you carry on consuming plastic. My artwork is a call for action: if you don't stop consuming plastic, it will consume you. It will consume you, the animals, the environment, the planet.
Description:
For this work, I reused a plastic bottle to create a digital photomontage about the issue of plastic pollution in rivers and oceans, taking the popular city of Venice in Italy as an example. An estimate of 50,000 tourists pass through Venice every day. These people consume mass-produced plastic goods, a lot of which end up in the canals of the beautiful Italian city. This is only one example of the terrible effect of plastic pollution in the world. Every MINUTE, one trash truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans. This is a fact that not many people are aware of. Did you know that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish? As many fish and other organisms cannot distinguish plastic items from food, they often starve because they don't digest the plastic, which fills their stomachs and prevents them from eating real food (source for the facts above: www.earthday.org). Therefore, my work 'Venice in a Bottle' hopes to demonstrate how the simple act of purchasing an item made of plastic - say a water bottle - can have a huge effect on the Earth's ecosystem and sustainability. In the photomontage, Venice is depicted as a miniature city in comparison to a large plastic bottle. This is a metaphor for the raging issue of plastic pollution. You can interpret the photo in two ways: either Venice was encapsulated in the bottle, trapped; or Venice is making an effort to reduce plastic consumption so it is getting slowly out of the bottle. It depends on your actions: if you choose to consume less plastic, or if you carry on consuming plastic. My artwork is a call for action: if you don't stop consuming plastic, it will consume you. It will consume you, the animals, the environment, the planet.
For this work, I reused a plastic bottle to create a digital photomontage about the issue of plastic pollution in rivers and oceans, taking the popular city of Venice in Italy as an example. An estimate of 50,000 tourists pass through Venice every day. These people consume mass-produced plastic goods, a lot of which end up in the canals of the beautiful Italian city. This is only one example of the terrible effect of plastic pollution in the world. Every MINUTE, one trash truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans. This is a fact that not many people are aware of. Did you know that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish? As many fish and other organisms cannot distinguish plastic items from food, they often starve because they don't digest the plastic, which fills their stomachs and prevents them from eating real food (source for the facts above: www.earthday.org). Therefore, my work 'Venice in a Bottle' hopes to demonstrate how the simple act of purchasing an item made of plastic - say a water bottle - can have a huge effect on the Earth's ecosystem and sustainability. In the photomontage, Venice is depicted as a miniature city in comparison to a large plastic bottle. This is a metaphor for the raging issue of plastic pollution. You can interpret the photo in two ways: either Venice was encapsulated in the bottle, trapped; or Venice is making an effort to reduce plastic consumption so it is getting slowly out of the bottle. It depends on your actions: if you choose to consume less plastic, or if you carry on consuming plastic. My artwork is a call for action: if you don't stop consuming plastic, it will consume you. It will consume you, the animals, the environment, the planet.
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