The Plastic Flowers

The art project that I created by using trash that I collected during the beach cleanup is called “Plastic Flowers”, and it was all made by plastic bottles. Plastic bottles were included in this art project, not only because this is something we picked up during beach cleanups, but also because this is the item that we use and throw away everyday. Plastic bottles are the representative of trash, because the 90 percent of the water and soda that we drink everyday are assembled by plastic bottles. At the same time, many of us do not have the sense of keeping the plastic bottles up for sale or to throw it into recycle bins after we finished with them. In this case, plastic bottles become one of the many trash that go into the ocean and ruin our environments. The message that I am trying to encode is that we can always turn something we consider as trash into artistic form of things with a little decoration and time. My audiences are residents of Los Angeles, because we live in the same environments. The intended effect is to inspire them to care more about the environments by first envisage the problem of trash.

Trash can appear very easily, and it always depends on our actions. As part of nature, we have the responsibility to help on solving this problem by changing our attitude. First, we can start by utilizing wasted materials. To keep in mind, trash can always be turn into something usable or just for decoration. This little step doesn’t only help on decreasing the number of trash, but also provides an opportunity for us to do something inspiration and fun after hours of hard works.