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.
I haven't been posting about it much, but I have been working a lot on my personal work Mom & Me. As part of this process I've been writing, poetry and some prose. Here is an erasure poem I made from a letter that my mom wrote me in 1993. I kept the words in order, and in her handwriting, but in erasing much of the content, give the letter new meaning. The image under her words is a photo she took on slide film before I was born.
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