Sunday, July 21, 2019

Planet or Plastic?




The original piece was raising awareness about recycling, depicting an ocean wherein there is a plastic bag that also looks like an iceberg. I decided to stay with the original theme of the piece and expand on it. I decided to pit left against right, planet against plastic. The left side is dedicated to all things natural: the forest, skies, trees, and wildlife. The right side is filled with commercialized plastic products that use materials that can be harmful to the environment, many of which will likely find themselves in our oceans one day. The edges of the remix also hold significance. I trimmed the edges of the left side so that the images are confined to the page, just like our forests are being trimmed back into smaller and smaller areas. On the other hand, the right side of the page is flowing off the edges of the paper, just like our plastic waste keeps overflowing and growing to fill our oceans and planet. Lastly, I left the original image in the center, drawing the most attention to the plastic bag/iceberg image that draws the entire piece together.

National Geographic Traveler
Aug/Sep 2018
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Dassi Lipnick


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