The Fine Art of Marine Debris by Pam Longobardi
Pam Longobardi (b.1958) transforms oceanic marine debris into installations and photographic works. Her artwork involves also painting and addresses the psychological relationship of humans to the natural world. She currently lives and works in Atlanta and is Professor of Art at Georgia State University.
In 2006, after discovering the mountainous piles of plastic debris the ocean was depositing on the remote shores of Hawaii, I began collecting and utilizing this plastic as my primary material in my project called Drifters. Since then, I have made scores of interventions, cleaning beaches and making collections from all over the world, removing thousands of pounds of material from the natural environment and re-situating it within the cultural context for examination.
For me, plastic has come to stand for the heavy hand of human presence in every corner of the globe. It is the symbol of wanton and thoughtless production and consumption, a lazy and greedy sucking up of energy and resources at the cost of all other life on the planet.
Read more about Pam Longobardi’s Drifters Project on her website.
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