For a while humans have laid their hands on some of the greatest blessings this earth has to offer… and sadly these blessings go by and get extremely exploited for our satisfaction. Nature just going by its normal day, until the first signs of human settlement come by with the ships and people walking along…
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Plastic Paradise?! – Mohammed and Pangna
Plastic Paradise?! by Mohammed Arham and Pangna Sun, 2021 Mainly made out of plastic bottles, the installation is an allegory of Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, UAE. The aim is to show the plastic footprint left behind by our daily plastic consumption and waste. According to the Natural Resource Defense Council(NRDC), “we produce…
Artist Statement: Viral Plastic
Title: Viral Plastic Presentation Artist Summary Questioning the Unseen This sculpture aims to speak to the power of microbes and of the unseen, and illustrate the permanent damage we inflict in response in the form of single-use plastic. By coopting plastic as a material to construct a natural entity –a virus– viewers are challenged…
Plastic Sculpture
In producing a plastic sculpture I sought to reflect the vision for our relationship with everything plastic. If there were a spectrum representing the age of a synthetic plastic, on one end we would have the our single use plastics – the food packaging, the single-use forks… On the other end, we would have synthetic…
Fanisi – Plastic Sculpture
Title: Responsible Leisure Link: Sculpture Presentation and Gallery Artist Summary The aim of our sculpture is to communicate to leisure seekers that they must be environmentally responsible even in relaxed settings. The beach is rightly viewed as a place where people can relax and alleviate themselves of life’s stressors, however this lax environment can also lead…
Plastic Paradise Sculpture – Pangna and Mohammed
Title – Plastic Paradise Abstract – This project was designed to showcase the prevalence of plastic waste produced by developed countries, with a particular focus on UAE. Residents of this country use around 450 plastic bottles each year, one of the highest amount in the world. As such, our work was inspired by this worrying…
Hilina Bayew: Sculpture – ‘Caught Red Handed’
Caught Red Handed When we went to Park Hyatt to collect trash we noticed it was rather clean and some of the guides informed us that turtles were quite an attraction for guests. These turtles along with various discussions we have had in class inspired our trash sculpture ‘Caught Red Handed’. This art piece is meant…
Ali AlDhanhani – Heather Kaye
Heather Kaye’s talk was very insightful and eye-opening. Prior to her talk, I had never wondered what our clothes were made of. I think I blindly assumed that clothes were made of cotton or some other material, but I never expected it to be plastic. I think it’s due to the nature of the appearance…
A little too late
A little too late by Ari Almansoori & Kevin Canales This piece is called a little too late. It is a depiction of what might happen in the near future if the plastic waste was not reduced on campus and in Abu Dhabi. This piece symbolizes how the school as well as Abu Dhabi as…
Written Response – Plastic Fashion
I was aware of many of the topics discussed in the last lectures, but not the magnitude in which these problems were affecting us and how absurd were these measures being implemented. For instance, I never realised how many clothes were actually going to waste even before being useful, and how many of these were…
Plastic Clothing
I actually knew most clothes were made from ~not cotton but I came to know that in a strange way. Someone passed down a sweater to me a couple of years back and it was distinctly of low quality. Not because of age but it felt very plastic — I could see the individual threads…