#beachwaste

🌊🎨 Exploring further on my project #WaterBlues today I came up with this painting. It certainly reflects what catches my eye on my morning #beachcombing walks. The interesting fragments are collected and come to my studio, the rest of the #plasticwaste goes into the recycling container. My surprise today: I first painted, then made the connections and pulled the fragments of #beachwaste out. Lucky Synchronicity 🙃✂️🎶 💦More images about the evolving project in the WaterBlues collection in top. #sabinesmemoirs #trustyourprocess #morningcollage #mixedmedia #collage #diary #sabinessoulcollage #wip (presso Piombino, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6dOw4qxZN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#beachwaste (at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CajiLcBPwLX/?utm_medium=tumblr

Packing peanut 🥜 #mintgreeninsurprisingplaces #polystyrene #beachwaste (at Costa De Caparica, Setubal, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B39bfSdHBKm6LNk8YhIIVT5O5dJ7IoS7h9Xz3c0/?igshid=4tsctdpj0lq

I need to dedicate a photo to why I'm here. Why this trip is so important. Tons and tons of plastic are in our oceans right now, killing ecosystems and animals faster than we can save. Animals like this gorgeous sea turtle have to survive in this trash, mistaking it for food, and getting caught in and around body parts, injuring and killing hundreds of thousands of animals like it everyday. If we can't start cleaning up after ourselves and our past generations, and refusing to use plastic, recycling, being mindful, and reducing your overall consumption of single use plastics (straws, forks, water bottles) then we are going to ruin the ocean forever. A team cleaned this beach today and our amazing #IVHQHawaii program will continue to clean beaches all over to help protect the amazing ecosystems these islands have. If we can't start changing our consumerism habits now and reduce our plastic waste, then we will doom our oceans forever. Everybody start local, and the effects are global. #BeMindful #Volunteer #BeachWaste #OceanPlastic #OceanPollution #Hawaii #Environmentalist (at Koolauloa, Hauula, Hawaii)

This piece of work I really enjoyed creating. Digging into the rubbish (wearing gloves) and selecting things I thought would fit well into the shape of a seahorse. It was fun to visually create something in my mind and try and to recreate it out of plastic rubbish I found on a beach!

Here is the beach waste I collected from a beach in Dorset and a beach in Rhoose in South Wales. The idea was to collect the beach waste and to up-cycle it into something sea related to resemble plastic and sea pollution.