Next month photographer Chris Jordan and a team of artists are heading to Midway Island, in the middle of the Pacific "garbage patch." There, albatross are dying off because the birds mistake floating debris for food. Follow their progress here, and donate some cash by emailing midwayjourney at gmail.com.
Seeing all these bird's remains full of plastic really shocks me & drives home the reality of the damage that overuse of throwaway plastic causes. Everyone on this planet needs to see this! Peace to all, Marie Heerkens
Paul Schmelzer is a writer and editor in Minneapolis. Formerly managing editor of Walker Reader(2011–2020), the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, he is cofounder of The Ostracon, an art writing site created through funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital's Arts Writers Grant program; creator of Signifier, Signed; a former editor at Adbusters; and contributor to Artforum.com, Cabinet, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Progressive, Raw Vision, Utne,and others.More >>
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Seeing all these bird's remains full of plastic really shocks me & drives home the reality of the damage that overuse of throwaway plastic causes. Everyone on this planet needs to see this!
Peace to all,
Marie Heerkens
It 's a terrible thing! ..
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