Welcome to art in plastics.
The Pandemic Playground is a surreal composition comprising a phantasmagoria
of plastics my wife Rita and I collect each day off the public beach in front
of our stately oceanfront condo, The Chalfonte.
Behold
the plastic toys, buckets, shovels and rakes.
Plastic seahorses, smiling starfish and pearly fish wearing underwater
goggles. Then there are the plastic crabs, turtles and rubber dinosaur stalking
fear into the faces of tiny creatures.
What? A plastic cone? So, I plop a golf ball in and it becomes
vanilla ice cream.
See
the assorted figurines and objects, all paraphernalia in plastics discarded and
strewn about, desecrating our beloved beach, insulting our ecosystem, yet they’re
raw material for art.
Looking
at it now artistically assembled, the once ugly trash turns into The
Pandemic Playground, an imaginative work of art in plastics.
Collecting
it has helped us to stay sane during this prolonged pandemic, while paying our
respects and artistic homage to our planet, to our besieged environment
befouled and desecrated by billions of plastic bottles and caps, knives, forks
and spoons.
Why
do restaurant workers continue to automatically toss those packages of plastic
utensils into curbside orders? Why do kids leave so many shovels in the sullied
sand. After a day’s sandcastle building
and hole digging, why can’t parents see to it that the plastics are collected
off the beach?
And
now making things worse we’re seeing heaps of discarded face masks washing up on
shores worldwide. Oh, our poor planet!
One
of the several works or art I drew from the playground, created and signed with
my artist’s initials, TM, is a collection of different colored plastic
shovels we collected from the beach. The
work is titled unsurprisingly “Shovels.”
If a museum would like to exhibit it,
I’ll gladly supply this original work of art.
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