SAFe?

I am wrapping my deck in single use plastic clam shells.  

Why?

These clamshells have been collected by the community and CCES for a large installation I was due to produce around this time at CCES and later for Visarts during their Earth Day festival. The project is to raise awareness of the continued misuse of single use plastic by mankind and highlight people’s personal usage of it. 

We have all been inundated with information on the mess we have made with plastics. The new ‘super’ material only introduced in the 60’s has taken over, been badly misused and become a modern day Trojan horse in society. At present the average American uses 220lbs of plastic per person per year mostly in packaging (source: The global list). There is a lot of confusion of the viability of recycling the various different types of plastics. I’m hoping that by making projects such as this I can enable us to make better choices for the future.

Obviously, the installation at the school/festival isn’t going ahead so I have chosen to wrap my deck in clam shells to create a plastic, sealed sanitized ‘package’ of the deck.  This now has changed the theme to become multi representational, not only the blight of pollution and eco damage from the plastic but also the damaging isolating times we presently find ourselves in.

Now in this time of concerns over personal safety against the virus, how far do we need to go to be ‘SAFe?’ 100’s of the local and not so local community came out to see the installation during the covid lock down. People walked past, came on purpose, drove past and stopped by for a curious chat about why I had made SAFE.

This project has been made possible by sponsorship from CCES, Visarts Rockville and is part of the Sustainable Environmental Public Art Project Initiative led by AHCMC and the DEP.

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‘I cannot believe how little recycling my family generates without the clam shells that we have been collecting separately for this project!’

— Quote from a local community collector.