Dead Sea. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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In a traveling exhibit, “Gyre: The Plastic Ocean,” organized by Anchorage Museum and now on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles, artists shine a light on the collective cost of the individual littering…
“These artworks are testaments to the negative impact of our consumptive practices and reminders of the ongoing damage we subject our natural environment to,” USC Fisher Museum curator Ariadni Liokatis said…
Read Full Article And View Images, Huffington Green
Coastal Care Photo Of The Month: “Action Climate,” A Work Of Art, by HA Schult- March & April 2014
HA Schult was one of the first artists to deal with the ecological imbalances in his work. He is a major contributor to today`s new ecological awareness…
Coastal Care Photo Of The Month: “Art Lost”; By David Kassman – December 2014
Coastal Care Photo Of The Month: Eight Gabions; By Mary Flynn – February 2015
Me and you three; 2 years, 4 artists, 8 beaches, by artists: Judes Crow, Annik Cullinane, Mary Flynn & Gerry Price
For two years, four artists have been making site visits together to coastal locations and visits to eight island beaches, around the Isle of Wight, UK. The result is an eclectic exhibition made cohesive by linking the marine environment to humanity…
Me and you three; 2 years, 4 artists, 8 beaches; PART II, The Students Response…
One Plastic Beach (03-02-2011)
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic they pick up, comes back to their house where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art…
The Wrecking Season, Video
This film follows playwright, beachcomber and lobsterman Nick Darke, onto the beach during one stormy winter and records all his discoveries, tracing everything he finds along the coastline back to its source…
Plastic Pollution: “When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide,” Coastal Care
For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming and upward trend over the past years. In 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 260 million tons, and, according to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by the end of 2015.
Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature… — © SAF — Coastal Care
