This is article is directly connected to the “Why I get pissed off” article.
Jason Sandman posted this video on Facebook and I decided to repost it here. What captured my attention is the equanimity this couple is showing. They have been collecting plastic trash for the past 10 years from Kehoe Beach in Point Reyes National Park in Northern California at the rate of 75 pounds of plastic within a two hours collection and have been making art objects out of that plastic collection. They are not showing anger or bitterness. They identified an issue and they decided to take this on as a quasi scientific project.
Here is one quote from Richard Lang that I want to keep:
“The opposite of beauty is not ugglyness.
The opposite of beauty is indifference.”
The issue we are dealing with is that life on this planet is dying from our own indifference.
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.
To learn more about their work, visit: beachplastic.com/
