Micro-plastics and ocean currents are mapped-out in a multi-channel video installation that links our love affair with plastics to the health of ocean environments and the evolution of marine ecosystems.
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” — Rachel Carson, 1951.
Cherie Noble’s art practice explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Current investigations into marine plastic pollution bring together her interests in the nature, environmental philosophy, and her fascination and concern for marine environments, as a form of activism.
Image: Cherie Noble ‘Consumed’. Video still [2018].
