Plastic Currents (Blue Interior) - Limited Edition #6 of 10 Photograph

I was collecting plastic debris each time I walked to my studio from my apartment in Brooklyn. I kept trying for weeks to construct a still life with these random pieces but it wasn't working. In frustration I threw the plastic bag that I'd collected the debris in, and then watched it slowly alight on a large softbox I had not yet put away laying on the floor. The softbox created a perfect frame for the plastic bag, and it made me see it in a different way - as a symbol of the climate crisis, a symbol of the convenience of a "throw away" culture, even though I know that the oil companies are far more to blame than any one of us. I began photographing the bag and it was interesting, but when I turned on the soft box the bag was completely transformed. It went from being an ordinary package to being extraordinary and charged with possibilities. Artist Statement: A current is a continuous, directed movement of water generated by the forces acting upon it, such as the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. Interaction with other currents transforms a current's direction and strength. In Plastic Currents, the everyday plastic bag is transformed by light, turned from something familiar into something strange. Undulating and fluid these forms transition from non-biodegradable, reviled plastic bags into something otherworldly, full of possibilities.