Microplastic Body Columns: Clathria Sp.01

Clathria pulmonalis, Sp.01 Microplastic Body Columns. Available in selected Galleries. Medium: Glass, 3D resin print waste, PLA, Padico clay, acrylic, blackwood timber. Built from glass, 3D-printing waste and sculpted marine growths, this work imagines an ecology developing through the materials we make and discard. Root-like forms rise from accumulated plastic debris into strange coral structures, where a familiar bottle neck has begun to disappear into the growth. Beautiful but slightly unfamiliar, the work considers a future in which synthetic material is no longer simply pollution surrounding marine life, but part of what that life grows through and around. Size: Height 65cm, Plinth 40cm × 20cm, 5Kg