Plastic: The art medium of the modern era

Plastic: The art medium of the modern era:

Sometimes words aren’t enough. When it comes to plastic pollution, the facts are well known. More than 8 million tonnes of plastic waste enter our oceans every year. One million plastic bottles are bought every minute. One hundred thousand marine animals are killed by plastic annually.

Too often these numbers roll over people like a wave. The outsized problem, so difficult to grasp in scale, can sometimes engender only a feeling of helplessness.

Examples abound. From the massive “Happy Happy”, created from 1.7 million plastic items in Seoul to the small “Plasticide” made from tiny microplastics in London, the medium of the modern era is plastics.

In Auckland, New Zealand, local artist Brydee Rood created a windsock from plastic bags half the length of a football field called “May the Winds Not Carry Us Out to Sea”.

An art installation in Auckland (UN Environment)\

"Baruna Murthi" in Bali (UN Environment).

A plastic installation in Yangon's Junction City Mall (UN Environment)

A plastic sphere in Hong Kong (UN Environment)