'Everything that wouldn’t compost or recycle in the normal way but we couldn’t bring ourselves to throw away’
Philip & Jane Cole et al
Dimensions variable
Installation commenced on the 1st April 2009 & added to daily.
Recently I have been reading about the North Pacific Gyre, a floating mass of plastic rubbish that is reputedly the size of Texas and growing daily. ‘It’s a floating art installation’, one of my students wittily remarked! The trouble is, like lots of things, it’s ‘out of sight and out of mind.’ Unfortunately the plastics issue just won’t go away and whilst I really like plastic, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to just bin it. From the first of April 2009, my long suffering family and I decided not to throw away anything that couldn’t be recycled in the normal way - so we washed it and collected it and chucked it in a corner of the garden. That's 2 month's worth.
Philip & Jane Cole et al
Dimensions variable
Installation commenced on the 1st April 2009 & added to daily.
Recently I have been reading about the North Pacific Gyre, a floating mass of plastic rubbish that is reputedly the size of Texas and growing daily. ‘It’s a floating art installation’, one of my students wittily remarked! The trouble is, like lots of things, it’s ‘out of sight and out of mind.’ Unfortunately the plastics issue just won’t go away and whilst I really like plastic, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to just bin it. From the first of April 2009, my long suffering family and I decided not to throw away anything that couldn’t be recycled in the normal way - so we washed it and collected it and chucked it in a corner of the garden. That's 2 month's worth.
