Plastic Portraits is a project that seeks to explore our relationship with plastics. People in this world interact with plastics on a daily basis. From single-use, disposable items, to medical and technological equipment that many of us find essential to our lives, plastic is so integrated that we often use and interact with it without being aware of it.
By photographing different people with the plastics they use daily, this project opens the door to thoughtfulness and discussion around the plastics in our lives. It raises awareness of the ubiquitous presence plastic has in our world and hopefully will spark individuals to make more thoughtful, informed decisions regarding their own plastic consumption.
Sometimes when one is looking through old hard drives in search of a specific project, one stumbles across something silly. Some self portraits perhaps from more lighthearted times (while we still have the 44th president perhaps)! I think these photos were for some lighting tests or maybe a class assignment of self portraits, but either way, they made me laugh, and maybe they will you too! (I still have the same curtain and same towel btw)
