I wanted to try using water as it was the most affected according to me research by plastic bag pollution. I used solid and tin foil as the materials I choose to freeze investigating how they both will behave when they undergo this process. Here I documented the process:

Next I took out the frozen cubes and tried to document the news ways the materials interacted with the work and with me. I played about with the tin foil in the ice and enjoyed the mix of a plastic through the frozen water, really capturing the level of intervention of the plastic within out natural world.

Over the course of the melting water, I was able to capture that all that would be left is the plastic, highlighting that it doesn’t decompose like other materials taking years to really be gone. I then went onto studying the soil and water mix.

I also wanted to explore more artificial colours so I used food colouring and froze it into small cubes to the capturing how that can be used to make marks. I think this was an iterating development within my project but wasn’t sure where to go with it so I left it at this.

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