Remember when I photographed trash on the beach? http://carolleigh.blogspot.com/search/label/trash
There's an artist named Angela Haseltine Pozzi down on the southern Oregon coast who has taken this to a whole new level, creating enormous sculptures of trash she's picked up on the beach. Chris and I went up to Newport Saturday to see her exhibit, which will be here through October and then moves over to the aquarium.
It's exhilarating and it's heartbreaking. She's sorted the trash into various colors and has created the giant fish you see here as well as enormous starfish, a jellyfish that hangs from the ceiling which enables you to become entwined in its tentacles, and a whale skeleton that you can walk through.
Rubber flip-flops are a huge part of ocean trash,and she shows how not only are flip-flops washing up onto the shores, but the rubber matting that the flip-flops have been punched from is also part of the mix -- manufacturers apparently just discarding everything into the sea.
Here you see a giant fish she's created as well as a couple of close-ups that show you the details, and then there's the whale skeleton.
For more information about what she does, here's a story from OregonLive.com: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/07/from_the_garbage_that_washes_u.html
©Carol Leigh
