GreatGarbagePatch.com was started by digital media artist, designer and activist Sheiva Rezvani as a compliment to a photographic series about the Patch exhibiting now at the Gallatin Arts Festival.
Of her motivations she says, “I hope to incite people to become as obsessed as I’ve become with this phenomenon, and to get people to act on it to make real lifestyle changes that will be uncomfortable and strange at first, but the end result will be life-saving.”
Her artist statement for the Great Garbage Patch series sums it up:
The Great Garbage Patch is an oceanic gyre two times the size of Texas
where the world’s trash spirals into a massive accumulation of mostly
broken down plastic, in the middle of the Pacific. This series is a
sci-fi interpretation of this very real environmentally disastrous
phenomenon.This is not science, this is heartbreak.
Messages in a [plastic] bottle float back to us.
“You treat trash like death, but it will come back to haunt you.
Worldwide ocean currents flow and spiral into our food chain. Children
play in parks that sit on trashy graves that will outlive us all. It
began with rubber duckies. It ends with us.â€
Images of her pieces will be up on this site soon.
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