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Exhibit by Bonnie Monteleone
She collected digital images of plastic artifacts retrieved from various garbage patches along with her own ocean photography to create the display.
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"In my opinion the issue about plastic and water is a really big problem to our health and environment.
about 8 million plastic items is being wasted, which could really effect and impact our health, the environment, the waterways etc. the more plastic pollution is being produced the more it could impact our lives. Most of the plastic that is being wasted is mainly effecting our waterways (oceans, lakes etc) and is harming our marine animals and important wild life elements in the water that could help the environment. These chemicals can accumulate in body tissues and have serious lethal effects on our immune system, and hormone balance. Floating plastic debris can produce ulcers, infections and lead to death. Marine plastic pollution can even reach birds that have never been at the sea. in conclusion Plastic causes pollution which is very dangerous to our environment and health."
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Painting by Gerhard Knolmayer
This piece is meant to represent the garbage currently floating in the Pacific Ocean. He uses small pieces in the center of the painting to depict the garbage patch
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By: Pam Longobardi
Pam uses a collection of plastic pieces collected from the ocean to create the sculpture. She has removed many pounds of plastic from beaches and utilized them into her art work.
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This piece is a mural created by students from the Aitkenhead Primary School, located in North Lanarkshire. These children used plastic bottles as the medium to create 3D models of fish and filled the bottles with plastic straws to illustrate the microplastics that the fish consume from pollution. The “SEA THE DAMAGE” and the tearful eye is created with plastic bottle caps to further emphasize the need for change in oceanic life.
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"The airship Norge floating above Spitsbergen in 1926 before Roald Amundsen's expedition to the North Pole. Amundsen, Umberto Nobile (the pilot and designer of the airship), and Lincoln Ellsworth flew from Spitsbergen to Alaska, becoming the first people to definitely reach the North Pole." Encyclopædia Britannica
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Conceptual art of a polar bear being destroyed by today's industries, and pollution.
Artist: Robin Wood
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Digital art for La Revista's issue about climate change, ice caps, and melting through the last ice on the planet.
Artist: Jon Berkeley
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Satirical cartoon decrying the polar caps melting.
Artist: Toons
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Conceptual image of the polar caps melting
Artist: Smetek
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An artistic replica created as a call to action regarding the growing plastics issue in our oceans worldwide.
Artist: Greenpeace Organization
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Sculpture created reflects animals in danger from the pollutants that it is made out of.
Artist: Washed Ashore Organization
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Sculpture made from a sea of plastics (comprised of over 100,000 single use plastic bottles).
Artist: Sue Lipscombe
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The unfortunate reality of an otherwise beautiful scene.
Image from World Atlas