A world of waste
Garbage, things we no longer want, thrown away...
not in a bin or recycling center or even in a dump.
Thrown on the beach, in the trees, a pathway, near a lake.
We are trashing Mother Earth one pop can, one cigarette pack at a time.
Every year we dump a massive 2.1 billion tons of waste.
If all this waste was put on trucks they would go around the world 24 times.
This stunning amount of waste is partly because 99 percent of the things we buy are trashed within 6 months.
Garbage, things we no longer want, thrown away...
not in a bin or recycling center or even in a dump.
Thrown on the beach, in the trees, a pathway, near a lake.
We are trashing Mother Earth one pop can, one cigarette pack at a time.
Every year we dump a massive 2.1 billion tons of waste.
If all this waste was put on trucks they would go around the world 24 times.
This stunning amount of waste is partly because 99 percent of the things we buy are trashed within 6 months.
Trash the Earth explores the uneasy coexistence of nature's beauty and waste.
By presenting garbage within the natural world in a visually appealing way,
the series asks us to consider our complicated relationship with beauty, consumption, and neglect.
This ongoing series examines the paradox of creating something visually compelling, from what damages beauty itself.
It exposes the tension between attraction and awareness, desire and denial.
These discarded fragments become reminders of our complicity and our capacity to look the other way.
Ultimately, this work asks whether beauty can still exist, unspoiled, in a world we have already marred.
It asks us to care for the land we’ve scarred and to end the cycle of mistaking carelessness for inevitability.
By presenting garbage within the natural world in a visually appealing way,
the series asks us to consider our complicated relationship with beauty, consumption, and neglect.
This ongoing series examines the paradox of creating something visually compelling, from what damages beauty itself.
It exposes the tension between attraction and awareness, desire and denial.
These discarded fragments become reminders of our complicity and our capacity to look the other way.
Ultimately, this work asks whether beauty can still exist, unspoiled, in a world we have already marred.
It asks us to care for the land we’ve scarred and to end the cycle of mistaking carelessness for inevitability.
*If I was able to carry the garbage, it was removed and disposed of properly
