Zelda Zinn: Perpetual Plastic
*all images can be printed and framed in any size upon request
For most of the last decade, I have been working with ephemera on it’s way to the recycle bin. I have used packing bubbles, security envenoms, shredded paper and magazines, backdrop paper, and most recently, plastic shopping bags.
Whereas many of the goods were easily recyclable, the plastic bags are not. Bright, shiny and alluring, they are dangerous to wildlife. The big stores have their own bags, touting their brands as they are carried or blown about. A long term solution to a short term problem, they take hundreds of years to decompose.
I wanted to approach this issue through visual appeal. Seductive forms draw viewers in, engaging them to decipher meaning, as we are hard-wired to do. This work continues my longtime obsession with the meaning and function of photographs, the presentation of information, and the nature of representation.
