Skin and Plastic

series of six slides originally projected onto a pedestal form, bleeding into the surrounding walls, 2019.

This piece begins with the constructing of a pedestal representing overwhelming data on water pollution.The artist moves the pedestal to various locations, pushing it uphill, rolling it down, tightly wrapping it in plastic bags, accounting for the trash produced in a small residential building for a week.

Could humanity shift its position from a stance of victimising nature and vilifying its own wasteful existence, to assuming an active responsibility? The artist explores empathy as an approach to awaken the innate responsibility which emerges when humanity claims its biophillic nature.