In a fantastic future, colorful and cheerful in appearance, but desolate in substance, the animals that populate the Earth will... Read More
In a fantastic future, colorful and cheerful in appearance, but desolate in substance, the animals that populate the Earth will have to deal with an increasingly constant pollution and with the increasingly strong presence of plastic in their food. But how far will this be possible?
In a not too distant world, in a dystopian, unreal but not too distant future, plastic and the countless objects produced by an era that consumes without conscience will take over nature, forcing the creatures that populate the Earth to adapt to artificiality to survive. This is the concept behind the Back to the Plastic Age series, which includes the two Marker and Ink works presented. The history of life on Earth is intimately linked to adaptation, which indicates the set of morphological, physiological and anatomical transformations put in place to adapt to the environment and its characteristics. Adaptation guarantees the continuity of the species, because without it there is only death. For this reason, in the Plastic Age animals must adapt to eat the plastic, present in their food, carefully packaged with colored labels that please the eyes but do not satisfy the palate: inside the banana with label, You find other plastic and no nutrition. It’s an imaginative image.... but are we sure it is? Perhaps we should ask the scientists at the University of Newcastle who in a 2021 study found that we ingest an average amount of plastic equal to one credit card every seven days.
