Plastic Pollution Monochrome Photo Series
The motivation for creating this series started with two powerful emotions. Anger and frustration! While walking toward home alongside a row of street trees, I was dismayed by the amount of plastic entangled in the leaves of the trees. I stopped in my tracks. And thought, they looked like poorly decorated Christmas trees. However, sadly the random ugly plastic bits were suffocating the leaves on the trees. I plucked a piece of plastic from a tree and the plastic pollution monochrome series was conceived.
The world is facing a plastic crisis, the status quo is not an option. Plastic pollution is a serious issue of global concern which requires an urgent and international response involving all relevant actors at different levels.
Source: Geneva Environment Network
Subject Matter Used to Create this Series
The organic materials used in this series are found flowers and leaves. As you can see in the monochrome imagery, they’re in various stages of decomposing. The plastic was thick in consistency and was a pocket shape. It was a perfect container to put the found flora inside. The plastic pocket creates visual irregularities and peculiarities. Furthermore, the pocket created a visual metaphor for suffocating nature with plastic.
More monochrome found flora artworks can be found here.
