Video: Soup - a series of real collages dedicated to the garbage in the ocean
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Garbage dumped into the ocean is one of the biggest environmental problems of our time. Moreover, it is not solved at all, but only gets worse. It is precisely this issue that a series of real collages with a common name is devoted to. Soupby British photographer Mandy Barker.
Just yesterday on the site Kulturologia. Ru We talked about a series of installations Under the Water, created by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata from debris and debris carried into the ocean by the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011. A similar project is being carried out by the Englishman Mandy Baker. But his works deal with this problem even more broadly - they are devoted to garbage in the ocean as such.
Mandy Baker was impressed by the fact that the Pacific Ocean has a so-called “Great Garbage Island”, which is twice the size of Texas. This island, of course, has a very detrimental effect on the entire water area of the ocean, on the ecology, on living organisms, on the coast.
On the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Mandy Baker collects trash, which he then uses in his work. He sorts it by size, color, material, theme, location, and then photographs the resulting real collages.
For example, one of the collages in the Soup series is dedicated to food products, another - to household items, the third is created exclusively from red things. There is even a collage with garbage that was found in the stomachs of dead animals (turtles, birds, dolphins), whose corpses were washed ashore by the ocean.
The main task that Mandy Baker sets before herself when creating these collages is to evoke an emotional response in the viewer, strong feelings, which later, perhaps, will make him think more about consumption and garbage. After all, it would seem, is it much easier to stop littering in nature and throw waste only in specially designated places? However, many people ignore these seemingly natural and uncomplicated rules.
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