The invisible plastic waste disposal is more than the waste disposal that we can see in our daily lives. We all know that plastic waste cannot be catabolism by the earth. When it is hit by waves and sunlight, it breaks down into particles 5mm or less in diameter and flows into the ocean to feed marine life. And Humans eats whole crustacean seafood, the plastic particles finally return to our bodies.
The project’s concept is"what they eat, what we eat."
It used white granular shape to sculpture the fresh seafood. It highlighting the real ingredients hidden in the delicious seafood - [microplastic] .Furthermore, the reason why the overall picture approaches full white is to emphasize the sense that plastic particles are easily ignored.In the background, plastic bags and boxes represent the endless vicious cycle of overuse of plastic packaging.The $88 on the price tag symbolize two infinite symbols , which also means that the earth is trying to catabolism plastic particles, an endless vicious cycle.
Through reflection, we hope that people will realize the dangers of plastic waste, and it will return to ourselves eventually.
Through this project, we hope that people will see bright red labels at first ,which symbolize freshness. and then noticed the seafood and microplastic.
"Just like when we are buying seafood , we only focus on storage life and how to cook it. We didn’t focus on the environment of marine life is pollution or not.
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充斥在日常生活中的塑膠垃圾，除了看得到的還有更多是看不到的。我們都知道塑膠廢棄物是無法被地球代謝掉，廢棄物受到海浪衝擊和陽光照射，會分解成直徑5毫米或更小的塑膠微粒流入海洋當中，成為海洋生物們的食物。而人類透過食用整隻甲殼類海鮮，這些塑膠微粒都會再回到我們的身體內。
作品表現是以「牠們吃什麼，我們就吃什麼的概念」來詮釋。以白色微粒形塑新鮮海鮮的樣貌，藉由顆粒感方式轉化，凸顯隱藏在美味海鮮內真實的成份。此外，整體畫面接近全白的原因，更是為了強調塑膠微粒容易被忽略的不存在感。
背景的塑膠袋、盒等元素，則是呈現人們在意新鮮快速及便利，不斷過度使用一次性塑膠包裝，標籤上的數字含義利用88兩個無限的符號作為價錢，也意指地球要消化塑膠微粒，是無止境的惡性循環。
透過這一系列的作品，希望讓觀者在眼先看到象徵新鮮的鮮紅色販售標籤，進而才看到海鮮樣貌，再看到塑膠微粒。就像人們在購買海鮮時都只在意保存期限、內容成份及如何料理的美味，不會聯想海洋生物的環境有沒有被污染。
經由作品反思，希望讓觀者可以意識到塑膠垃圾的危害，最終還是回到影響我們人類的身上。
