Remember that creepy scene in The Graduate, when Ben’s post-college identity haze comes to a climax at his graduation party, and a family friend pulls him aside to deliver that classic line: “I just want to say one word to you. Plastics.” Of course you do, it’s classic.
Today, plastic is indistinguishable and inseparable from our environment *yuck.. [Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Check out this incredibly eye opening Vice documentary on what it’s actually all about. hint: not just a giant ocean landfill, but much scarier.]
UK artists Charles Duffy, William Gubbins and Billy Turvey, are turning to plastic rubbish as a cultural reminder to reduce, reuse, recycle. In a 50% colorful | 50% freaky art series, they’ve combed the shores of Thames, the English Channel and the Atlantic coastline to create shoes entirely from found plastics — soles, laces and all. The project is a harsh and eerie look into how everything we buy is rubbish, and begs the questions, can we really change?
“ The behavioural changes that are required of us are so fundamental that no one wants to make them. What are they?
We need to consume less.
A lot less.
Less food, less energy, less stuff.
Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades.
Far fewer.
Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.” –Stephen Emmott
The project cites status and desirability as the foundation of our rubbish obsession.
Is there any way I could bur a pair of shoes and if so how much and where ?