Ocean Marine
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/timpugh"
title="Tim Pugh"
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Tim Pugh
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2021
- Live Art
- Mixed Media
- Drawing and Illustration
- Photography
- Plastic
- Soldier
- Pollution
- Installation
- Temporary
- Drawing
- South Beach
- Whitehaven
- West Cumbria
- Intervention
- Environment
- Design
- Project
Dimensions
120cm long (approx)
The temporary installation was created from beach plastic harvested from West Cumbrian beaches in June 2021.I sketched out an outline of a toy soldier onto a boulder at South Beach, in Whitehaven and filled in the form with the beach plastic,rather like a jigsaw.The artwork highlights the dangers of plastic to marine ecosystems and evokes my own past boyhood passion with collecting toy soldiers.The soldier I found on the beach was in a melancholy sea worn state and caused me to dwell on its origins and reflect on where and how it ended up in the sea and its subsequent lonely ocean voyage.
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