CURRENT OF COLOR

Our ocean is filled with vibrant hues of plastic.  Plastic that causes innumerable problems for our environment and our bodies.

I was walking on the beach in Thailand and was horrified by the layer of trash that washed in at high tide. Shoes, bottle caps, buckets, straws, styrofoam, and chips of colorful plastic lined the beaches as shells typically would. 

As a Brooklyn, NY based color and print designer I knew this color had a voice that could bring awareness to this issue.  Each day as the tide came in, I’d pick up the colorful bits that washed up, clean them, and assort them into an ombré of color on the sand.  People from Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, the US, England, and Australia stopped to ask and talk about our plastic ocean as I sorted and created on the beach. 

Color is emotional and has the power to draw people in.  Using the power of color to create these plastic gradients has enabled me to begin a larger dialogue about our plastic problem.  Seeing, collecting, and sorting the plastic on the beach became a meditation and reflection each day. Until I touched it and translated it into a language of color I didn’t fully digest the massive scale of the issue and the need to resolve it. 

Be a part of the solution by picking up trash in your community and starting the conversation around this problem.  Use less single-use plastic and urge companies to create more environmentally friendly packaging and containers.  Current of Color is a vehicle for change, to create a movement that will shift people’s behaviors to right this major issue.  

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