During the stay-at-home COVID-19 order, I found myself reflecting on the amount of single-use plastics that entered our home. Anywhere from packaging materials, carryout food containers & bags, retail & grocery bags, trash bags, toilet paper
The average American family takes home almost 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year. Only 1 percent of the plastic bags are returned for recycling. The rest end up in landfills or as litter. Up to 80 percent of the ocean plastic pollution enters the oc
Plastic bags are used for an only 12 minutes. They do not break down completely for over 500 years but instead photo-degrade, becoming micro plastics that absorb toxins and continue to pollute the environment.
I began collecting this single-use plastic and fusing it together to create a more rigid material that I found could be sewn together to create a form of social discourse art that recognizes and brings attention to the negative side of consumerism.
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Blooming Litter Blooming Litter - Private Collections of DeVos Place Convention Center
Blooming Litter (detail)
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