Video: I blinded him from what washed ashore. Trash sculptures by Angela Pozzi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It's no secret that the oceans are the world's largest landfill. In it, even a garbage island the size of two American states of Texas floats. There is so much garbage in the water that, if properly disposed of, you can make things people need from it. For example, sculptures, as did an American artist Angela Pozzi, who recently presented a series of her works with the title Washed Ashore.
The idea for the Washed Ashore sculpture series was born to Angela Pozzi at a time when she was desperate to collect all the garbage that is regularly dumped ashore near her home in Oregon by the Pacific Ocean. She diligently cleaned the shore and stuffed unexpected gifts of nature in different garbage bags, in accordance with the concept of separate garbage.
It was at this moment in Angela that the artist began to prevail over the pedant. So she decided to transform the collected trash into works of art. As a result, Pozzi and her assistants created a series of works "Washed Ashore" ("Washed ashore"), giving the name of what exactly these sculptures are made of.
Sculptures by Angela Pozzi depict marine animals that are most affected by the dominance of garbage in the oceans: turtles, starfish, fish, cetaceans. All of them are killed in one way or another by the debris floating in the water. So in this way, the artist clearly demonstrates the danger of further pollution of the ocean. After all, it may soon turn out that these animals will exist exclusively in the form of sculptures made of garbage, and will completely disappear in nature.
I must say that sculptures "Washed Ashore" by Angela Pozzi are not at all the first works in the "garbage style" in the world. Recall that a couple of months ago we told you on our website about a cornucopia - a sculpture created by Chinese artist Wang Zhiyuan.
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