Thoughts during collection and photography process

Why is there still waste in 2020, no one else seems to care.

This has been a very hard year, I have walked most days around the parks and shore lines of Sydney Rozelle/Balmain, and Cronulla Beach. During that time there has not been a single day that I have not filled my bag, filled a plastic bag and stuffed my pockets with rubbish. I have been dismayed, disheartened and felt very alone I. This plight.

As a dog walker I have also started a series of photographs to creat a typology that is called “this is not a bin”, that’s consists of dog owners throwing their pop bags anywhere they like.

But back to the materials, one of the hard things has been leaving things behind. I. The back of my mind know that waste is ugly, that it’s dirty and unhygienic. Certain items can’t be cleaned, they can’t be made to look pretty and need to be considered in the future for other art works perhaps.

The collection of items became the micro plastics, lids, straws, toys, lighters and dummies. The other items where thrown in the bin(recycled when possible) if it was an unusual shape or plastic object it was kept and again in the future I might create a similar artwork to the object of Stephen McPherson’s where he creates inventions from unusual shapes.

Cava 390 never fit the bill for me with making things, it was more about combining and figuring out how I can create the individual and connective. I definitely thing my mouth of plastic idea and eating plastic was connected to the finals works or desired works. Because the two subjects That I had the most success with are both connect to the mouth, communication, breathing, eating survival comes from the mouth. So by using straws which is an individual hard plastic item and dummies which are one of the things that we place in our innocent child’s mouth. It all made sense for me. The melting of the dummies significant to global warming the melding and linking talks about togetherness bringing individuals together to fix this problem. As the work is is frozen it becomes a statement, one which stops and pauses the issue for all to see. It becomes inescapable and unavoidable with water melting and lapping the floor at your feet.