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My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean

  • Written by Pam Longobardi, Regents' Professor of Art and Design, Georgia State University
My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the oceanPam Longobardi amid a giant heap of fishing gear that she and volunteers from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund collected in 2008.David Rothstein, CC BY-ND

I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the stories they hold and to mitigate their ability to harm. Each object has the potential to be a message from the sea – a...

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