An archive consisting of over 200 images of personal plastic waste taken over the period of one year. 

 

The collection and analysis of this plastic highlights the issue of waste; making it, and the much larger concern of the climate crisis (to which it is ultimately entangled), visible and tangible. Both a symbol and an icon of the Anthropocene.

 

By collating these images I have started to better understand my own contribution to this global issue and our disposable society. 

 

When photographing these objects, the shadows become more significant than the object itself. Shadows reveal our darkest unconscious, not only of the self but of the collective. 

Through acknowledging that this is our unconscious, and representative of our negative traits, we must also acknowledge that we are obligated to look to the positive and find a creative solution to end this crisis; this crisis of man’s making.