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Unaccountable Proclivities
Category: RE-act
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Title:
Unaccountable Proclivities
Unaccountable Proclivities
Author:
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang
Category:
RE-act
RE-act
Description:
Since 1999 we have been visiting Kehoe Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California as a collaborative team. We have rambled 1000 meters of tideline of this one beach hundreds of times to gather plastic debris washing out of the Pacific Ocean. By carefully collecting and "curating" the bits of plastic, we fashion it into works of art that show, with minimal artifice, the material as it is. The viewer is often surprised that this colorful stuff is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture. The plastic we find is not being left by negligent hikers — it has been a long time at sea before coming ashore. Oceanic plastic does not biodegrade but photo degrades, rubbing itself to ever-smaller pieces, planktonic in size—a killing meal for the next in line on the food chain. Along with the news about BPA and the chemicals leaching into our food from plastic we have learned that every human being on planet Earth has traces of plastic polymers in their bloodstream. "Unaccountable Proclivities" — this series of photographs of plates heaped with plastics represents the tasty bites we are feeding to ourselves and to our children. We have paired our colorful finds with a set of Feistaware dinner plates and marvel at proclivity of the colors. From the air we breath, the water we drink, the food we eat, art makes visible the environmental challenges we face. Art can activate — bringing us together to navigate the complexities of life.
Since 1999 we have been visiting Kehoe Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California as a collaborative team. We have rambled 1000 meters of tideline of this one beach hundreds of times to gather plastic debris washing out of the Pacific Ocean. By carefully collecting and "curating" the bits of plastic, we fashion it into works of art that show, with minimal artifice, the material as it is. The viewer is often surprised that this colorful stuff is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture. The plastic we find is not being left by negligent hikers — it has been a long time at sea before coming ashore. Oceanic plastic does not biodegrade but photo degrades, rubbing itself to ever-smaller pieces, planktonic in size—a killing meal for the next in line on the food chain. Along with the news about BPA and the chemicals leaching into our food from plastic we have learned that every human being on planet Earth has traces of plastic polymers in their bloodstream. "Unaccountable Proclivities" — this series of photographs of plates heaped with plastics represents the tasty bites we are feeding to ourselves and to our children. We have paired our colorful finds with a set of Feistaware dinner plates and marvel at proclivity of the colors. From the air we breath, the water we drink, the food we eat, art makes visible the environmental challenges we face. Art can activate — bringing us together to navigate the complexities of life.
Description:
Since 1999 we have been visiting Kehoe Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California as a collaborative team. We have rambled 1000 meters of tideline of this one beach hundreds of times to gather plastic debris washing out of the Pacific Ocean. By carefully collecting and "curating" the bits of plastic, we fashion it into works of art that show, with minimal artifice, the material as it is. The viewer is often surprised that this colorful stuff is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture. The plastic we find is not being left by negligent hikers — it has been a long time at sea before coming ashore. Oceanic plastic does not biodegrade but photo degrades, rubbing itself to ever-smaller pieces, planktonic in size—a killing meal for the next in line on the food chain. Along with the news about BPA and the chemicals leaching into our food from plastic we have learned that every human being on planet Earth has traces of plastic polymers in their bloodstream. "Unaccountable Proclivities" — this series of photographs of plates heaped with plastics represents the tasty bites we are feeding to ourselves and to our children. We have paired our colorful finds with a set of Feistaware dinner plates and marvel at proclivity of the colors. From the air we breath, the water we drink, the food we eat, art makes visible the environmental challenges we face. Art can activate — bringing us together to navigate the complexities of life.
Since 1999 we have been visiting Kehoe Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California as a collaborative team. We have rambled 1000 meters of tideline of this one beach hundreds of times to gather plastic debris washing out of the Pacific Ocean. By carefully collecting and "curating" the bits of plastic, we fashion it into works of art that show, with minimal artifice, the material as it is. The viewer is often surprised that this colorful stuff is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture. The plastic we find is not being left by negligent hikers — it has been a long time at sea before coming ashore. Oceanic plastic does not biodegrade but photo degrades, rubbing itself to ever-smaller pieces, planktonic in size—a killing meal for the next in line on the food chain. Along with the news about BPA and the chemicals leaching into our food from plastic we have learned that every human being on planet Earth has traces of plastic polymers in their bloodstream. "Unaccountable Proclivities" — this series of photographs of plates heaped with plastics represents the tasty bites we are feeding to ourselves and to our children. We have paired our colorful finds with a set of Feistaware dinner plates and marvel at proclivity of the colors. From the air we breath, the water we drink, the food we eat, art makes visible the environmental challenges we face. Art can activate — bringing us together to navigate the complexities of life.
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