PROJECT STATEMENT:
According to our research, there are 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean and 46,000 pieces in every square mile of the ocean now. What’s worse, the whole ocean is dominated by plastic wastes in the future, and 99% of the sea's surface is polluted by plastic waste rather than 88% in 2020. In this case, we build a scene of the ocean in a future planet dominated by pollution. With the use of plastic bags and water bottles, we try to simulate the marine environment in the future that is filled with plastic wastes. Under this situation, no living creature can pass the area easily, let alone the whole ocean. We build a dense plastic bag matrix to give our audience’s feelings of desperation and depression that sea creatures are suffering. In addition, we use various plastic bottles to act as polluted sea plants and coral reefs. By making this installation, we would like to use a kind of sarcastic tone to remind our audiences the importance of stop plastic pollution.
RESEARCH
Huang Jiuhong Ayi, who always has a smile on her face, has worked at NYUSH for more than 6 as a cleaning lady. She has a really enjoyable working experience here because NYUSH staff, teachers, and students all showed respect and good manner to her. She is also satisfied with her job although she needs to work all day, she devotes herself to her job without being exhausted. Whenever Huang Ayi encounters problems, she has a way to figure it out, and she is happy to solve them.
The first problem for Huang Ayi is the unbearable weight of the water bucket. According to our interview, Huang Jiuhong Ayi needs to mop the floor every day. Although our academic building is not enormous, carrying a heavy water (more than 10 kg) bucket all around on the 8th floor is still a significant load, let alone she is not in a young age plus she has already working for a very long time at that day.
The second problem is Huang Ayi's relax room is very small and squeezed, let alone she storages all her cleaning equipment inside, which makes it even smaller, it is really hard to stretch inside. For a person who works really hard and tiring, the space is never abundant.
We've got several solutions for her. One is to create a trailer using empty plastic bottle that can be pulled on the floor. Since the plastic bottle weighs very little since the PET plastic, the component that consists of plastic bottles, is very light. Hence, the self-weight of the trailer is ignorable. According to my research, PET is also a very stretchable material that can endure heavy lashes, plastic bottles can also perfectly carry the heavy water bucket. Also, we could use plastic trash to make stationary buckets that is allocated in different places in the floor. For example, every classroom has one of this installation and the students here is responsible to replace the water.
For the second problem, since we cannot change the structure of the building, doing changes in her room is somehow inaccessible. Also, as we can’t make a physical change to the room itself, we're able to do something visually making the room bigger. By sticking reflective paper onto plastic bottles and hang them on the ceiling, it will make the room look bigger.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, I think we completed our goal of explaining how serious the problem of plastic wastes is to our audiences and transfer a feeling of urgency of desperation to them.
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