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My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean

  • Written by Pam Longobardi, Regents' Professor of Art and Design, Georgia State University
imagePam Longobardi amid a giant heap of fishing gear that she and volunteers from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund collected in 2008.David Rothstein, CC BY-ND

I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the stories they hold and to mitigate their ability to harm. Each object has the potential to be a message from the sea – a...

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