The more time I spend in the lab and the more time I spend looking through the microscope, the more apparent it is that plastic pollution is everywhere. It is a really harsh reality that can feel incredibly discouraging but I am trying to understand it through the images I am making and what I am seeing.
After sharing some of my images with the science team, Hans Peter provided feedback in an email that I think hits all the points I have been thinking about and visually exploring in my work:
“The plastic interweaves with the organic matter, the biology grows on the plastic, leading to a potential future where organic matter is forever changed by being a natural+plastic hybrid… Our grandchildren's soil and seabed will no longer be our grandparent's soil and seabed, but something else, maybe benign, maybe very scary – a planetary threat.” - HP
