Unhappy Feet

These deep etched images of what remains from a penguin sits as a poignant reminder of the impact of contemporary consumerism on the unsuspecting wildlife that shares this biosphere.

This is plastic at its most destructive.

In viewing this plastic, this net, the viewer is struck by the colour and its resemblance to the icy waters of our artic regions. A net, a large net, it may have had a fish trapped in it, thus enticing this penguin to eat it. A final meal, and what a final meal! This net was so large that it filled the gullet of its host. Pressured into all its cavities, impressions of not only the throat and anus of the penguin is visible in its shape, but also the negative space left by its organs (heart, etc.) are visible.

It is, in my mind, horrific, just one piece of plastic did this. What of the other billion floating in our ocean’s. This truly creates a bleak picture of this planet’s future.