Feeding Time was created as a commentary on the plastics in the ocean, and how sea creatures are consuming it as if it were a source of food. This work isn’t meant to “knock” plastics, but our stewardship of said plastics. Plastic is one of the greatest inventions known to man; it saves countless lives since its invention and enables other technologies and processes. Our wasteful nature as humans is the problem and this work speaks of that very issue. I started by creating a crab and placing it in the middle of the work to give it dominance and to intrigue the viewer from afar. Once the viewer gets closer, they can see that it is made out of the very things hanging/floating above it. The idea is that the crab is becoming what it has consumed, plastic. The coral is made of spray foam and represents the dying marine ecology, where the plastics absorb heat from the sun and retain its energy, increasing the ambient temperature of the water around it, killing the algae within the corral. My goal was to balance the whole structure so that you don’t see it when you are up close. All you see are the creatures that have become more plastic-like.  

Lastly, I created a place setting that represents what we actually consume when we eat seafood today. According to current scientific studies, microscopic plastic particles are in everything we fish out of the ocean. Bon Appetit!