THE POLYMERIC ISLANDS

“Can a surrealist approach towards ecological messaging engage people to rethink attitudes and alter their behaviours towards the plastic polluted oceans?”

The immaculate birth of a dirty nation, a monument to consumerism and our ecological myopia. Moving away from traditional methods of ecological messaging, the project aims to inspire people to change personal behaviour by making a global emergency — the plastic-polluted oceans — real, something we can all relate to and feel compelled to act upon.

This project is concerned with individual action and aims to show that such action does count. In fact, it proposes that this is the only way in which change can come about: one person changing one small part of his world, again and again.

Using the power of satire and story-telling, The Polymeric Islands project is a visual symbol, a thorn in the public eye. It’s a self-proclaimed state, a group of islands of plastic garbage, piled up in the world’s oceans, claiming sovereignty. We are inviting people to join the fight, to help exterminate the land of human waste.

Strategically, the project identifies the major issue of the oceans’ garbage islands. It is designed as a concise encyclopaedia of the plastic-polluted oceans, an attempt to take an overview of all its diverse concerns: from the fate of rare species such as the Hammerhead Shark [Sphyrna mokarran] to the survival of the planet as a whole.