art activism by 2211480 Ying-Hsuan Wu https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7 en-us 2022-07-29 11:42:52 UTC 2025-10-24 17:50:19 UTC hello@padlet.com MANDY BARKER- Altered Ocean 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251718151 Mandy Barker is a British photographer. She is mostly known for work with marine plastic debris. Barker has worked alongside scientists in hopes of bringing awareness to the mass amount of plastic that is floating around in our oceans. (Wikipedia,2022)]]> 2022-07-29 11:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251718151 Angela Haseltine Pozzi 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251718712 Angela Haseltine Pozzi (born 1957) is an American sculptor who uses recycled ocean plastic to create her work. She is also the founder and creative director of Washed Ashore. Her large-scale sculptures include a polar bear, puffin, jellyfish, and an octopus. (Wikipedia,2022)]]> 2022-07-29 11:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251718712 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720549 2022-07-29 11:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720549 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720581 2022-07-29 11:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720581 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720646 2022-07-29 11:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720646 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720737 2022-07-29 11:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720737 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720775 2022-07-29 11:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251720775 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251721015 2022-07-29 11:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251721015 process 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251722581 She researched the impact of plastic on marine life and in 2012 she founded the Washed Ashore Project. With plastic debris collected from the beaches bordering Bandon, Oregon, she constructs large sculptures of marine life. With the help of over 10,000 volunteers the organization has collected upwards of 40,000 pounds of waste and created 70 sculptures.]]> 2022-07-29 12:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251722581 motivation 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251723043 Pozzi was a teacher for 30 years. After the sudden death of her husband in 2002 she turned to the ocean for healing.After seeing the detriment of plastic pollution along the Oregon coast, she soon realized the ocean also needed healing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Haseltine_Pozzi#Style]]> 2022-07-29 12:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251723043 purpose 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251724258 When people notice these colorful sculptures is made by rubbishes, they would feel shocked and sad. This feeling can arouse their attention about ocean pollution.]]> 2022-07-29 12:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251724258 motivation 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251724328 In 2010, prompted by the growing amount of plastic rubbish she was finding on beaches, and learning it could take centuries to degrade, she began to photograph it. ]]> 2022-07-29 12:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251724328 process 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251724372 Concerned with the effects of marine plastic debris, Barker’s photographic work has reached worldwide audiences through international exhibitions, educational outreach, media reports and other means.
https://www.overlapse.com/catalog/altered-ocean/]]> 2022-07-29 12:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251724372 purpose 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251725491 Her aim is to expand public awareness of the environmental crisis by using aesthetically attractive visuals to communicate evolving scientific research.
https://www.overlapse.com/catalog/altered-ocean/]]> 2022-07-29 12:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251725491 Context 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251728056 Marine debris means non-decomposable waste which flows or sinks into the ocean. Half of this garbage may be hit ashore by wind and waves, other may continue to float. After sun exposure, wind, and waves, they are continuously broken into plastic particles. After being eaten by small zooplankton, they passed through the food chain and may finally be eaten by humans. 
In 2010, Mandy Barker, photographer, found more and more plastic garbage on beach, and notice it need over centuries to solve. Therefore, she started to photograph it (https://thebristolmag.co.uk/altered-ocean-the-royal-photographic-societys-bold-new-exhibition/). Her purpose is improving public awareness of environmental risk though visual effect of her photograph publication and scientific research. ( https://www.overlapse.com/catalog/altered-ocean/)
]]> 2022-07-29 12:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251728056 resource 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251728501 https://www.mandy-barker.com/commissions
https://oceanic.global/mandy-barker/
https://www.washedashore.org/]]> 2022-07-29 12:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2251728501 R.: Barker 1 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255339344 https://www.overlapse.com/catalog/altered-ocean/]]> 2022-08-05 07:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255339344 introduction 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255410999 The problem of marine debris is becoming more and more serious. The garbage which is accidentally or unintentionally flowing into the sea cause incredibly serious pollution of the ocean. It is a problem that we must pay attention to. There are numerous artists have devoted to this issue. Among them Mandy Barker and Angela Haseltine Pozzi are very successful to raise awareness of ocean conservation. Their artworks are Altered Ocean and Daisy the Polar Bear respectively. This essay will show how they creative the project and use it to influence people's standpoints and behavior.]]> 2022-08-05 10:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255410999 impact 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255427175 Numerous reproductions from Mandy’s sketchbooks offer a behind the scenes look into her thought process during project development.]]> 2022-08-05 11:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255427175 R.: marine debris 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255908919 https://sciencing.com/plastic-trash-affecting-ocean-food-chain-12143.html
(Brett Smith, 2017)]]> 2022-08-06 15:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255908919 R,: pozzi 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255914580 https://www.tiredearth.com/interviews/tired-earth-an-interview-with-angela-haseltine-pozzi-founder-and-artistic-director-of-the-washed-ashore-project
(pozzi, 2021)]]> 2022-08-06 16:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255914580 pozzi purpose 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255918317 https://share.america.gov/turning-trash-into-art-to-save-ocean/]]> 2022-08-06 16:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255918317 elements 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255921512 Washed Ashore has taken those 26 tons of garbage, all debris that washed up on the Oregon coast (the majority within 100 miles of Bandon), and built 70 large-scale sculptures and counting, including Octavia the Octopus, Edward the Leatherback Turtle and Daisy the Polar Bear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/arts/design/ocean-plastic-sculpture.html]]> 2022-08-06 17:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255921512 why successful 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255922231 “She’s taken a concept that resonates with kids and adults alike to make these stunning animals, but the message is so strong, that there is plastic pollution at a scale we’ve never even dreamed of,” said Don Moore, director of the Oregon Zoo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/arts/design/ocean-plastic-sculpture.html]]> 2022-08-06 17:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2255922231 how to express 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256358695 We understand that many environmental challenges are often easy to ignore or too great to want to spend time on. To avoid being overwhelmed with apathy or depression, our sculptures lure the general public with the colorful beauty of oversized animals. Everyone wants to go see a giant Penguin, Octopus or Parrotfish! Then they get up close and they start to see that it is all made of garbage. Then they read the sign and find out it is all plastic garbage from the beach. They start looking closely to easy identify common everyday plastic items they use in their own lives; lighters, flip flops, toothbrushes, bottle caps, beer cans. They suddenly realize they are part of the problem and part of the solution. This is our most powerful educational tool, the art itself. The next thing they realize is that the animal they are admiring is endangered by the very pollution it is made from. The setting of the animal, such as Daisy the Polar Bear, on her melting iceberg or Giacometti the River Otter next to a plastic river may also deliver a message. This multi-level multi-sensory experience is the power of Washed Ashore.
https://www.tiredearth.com/interviews/tired-earth-an-interview-with-angela-haseltine-pozzi-founder-and-artistic-director-of-the-washed-ashore-project]]> 2022-08-08 02:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256358695 impact 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256362309 Since 2010, Angela Pozzi’s Washed Ashore project has transformed an astonishing 20 tons of marine trash into over 70 works of arresting larger-than-life public art works, drawing much-needed attention to the epidemic of plastic pollution and its negative impact on endangered species.(garbage)
2. I remember this one woman who came into the exhibit, and she stood there and she just started crying. I went up to her, and I asked her, “Is there anything I can answer? Are you doing OK?”

And she said, “This has impacted me so powerfully. I will never look at the world the same. What can I do?”

I’ve seen it several times: our work just brings people to tears. The arts can reach the heart in a way that facts and figures and science just can’t do sometimes. Over and over, I hear: this has changed the way I think about the world. And I go, Great! That’s a good start. That fuels me to keep doing this work.(people)
https://oceanic.global/angela-pozzi-of-washed-ashore/]]> 2022-08-08 02:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256362309 feature 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256364094 1. I knew from my father, who was director of the Washington State Arts Commission for 12 years and had done a lot of work with public art – I knew it had to be public, and it had to be big. The biggest issue with public art is it’s not big enough; people ignore it, people don’t see it. (big)
2. So I thought, it has to be big, and it has to be something that everyone loves — so animals that were threatened by marine debris. So I thought: how about a big fish that everyone wants their picture taken next to, and can go viral? And everything came together, and suddenly I found a purpose in life. (exhibition)
https://oceanic.global/angela-pozzi-of-washed-ashore/]]> 2022-08-08 02:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256364094 inspiration 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256365967 1. I was also raised by two artists, and I grew up realizing that the arts are an important language(big)
2. I walked onto this one beach and I was just shocked. There was a rack line of plastics going away as far as the eye could see. I was absolutely horrified.(garbage)

I saw people along the shoreline picking up agates and shells with their little buckets, and I thought, I have to figure out how to get those people to pick up this stuff. And I have to get them to see. Because we can’t not see it — this is bad.

So I decided to only use garbage from the beach as my medium.
https://oceanic.global/angela-pozzi-of-washed-ashore/]]> 2022-08-08 02:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256365967 process 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256369451 1. Now it’s six years later. We started the whole non profit in 2010. I have 9 employees, and 10,000 volunteers.(volunteers)
2. We’ve processed about 20 tons of garbage now into about 70 sculptures.(70works)
3. People drop off the raw debris. Then we sort through it, using pretty much everything, about 95% — which is a real challenge, creatively, because I don’t want to recycle any of it; I want people to see how much there is. If I recycled all the water bottles, then nobody would realize how many water bottles wash ashore. The only things we don’t use are toxic things or stuff that’s too photo-degraded for us to use. 
All those parts are quality checked – everything has to be 100-mile-an-hour windproof, because they might end up outside. And those parts of pieces come back to the sculpture processing, and I have an apprentice and art assistant that work with me to attach those pieces to the big steel frame – we have a welded steel frame that we create. But it’s a strange, strange world, to work with marine debris.(divide)
4. Some of those pieces are on permanent sites, where they were commissioned. Mostly we find that exhibiting at zoos, aquariums, and science centers is really a great way of getting the message out, because we connect with their education staff, and sometimes the animal is right there, so their education connects with what our message is.(exhiabiton)

Once we hose everything down, we start sorting it by type of things. Then we vinegar wash, and use biodegradable soap. We scrub it, we scrape it; we put things in our aging yard that have too many barnacles attached, and let the raccoons and the slugs do their job. We let the rain do its job. And then we sort it by color.

From there, it’s a constant design process. We never, ever supplement with anything that’s not from the beach.
https://oceanic.global/angela-pozzi-of-washed-ashore/]]> 2022-08-08 02:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2256369451 impack 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257220304 UK-based photographer Mandy Barker is an internationally-acclaimed photographer, receiving the 2018 National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration for her work involving marine plastic debris. Her work has been published in over 40 countries by the likes of Time Magazine, Unesco and The Guardian and her first book Beyond Drifting was named one of the Ten Best Photography Books of 2017 by Smithsonian. Mandy collaborates with scientists and the general public to raise awareness about the effects of plastic pollution in the world, a costly detriment on marine life, not to mention human welfare. Next month, Mandy is exhibiting her internationally-acclaimed photography series Hong Kong Soup at Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, on til January next year.
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/mandy-barker-penality-series-photography-260918]]> 2022-08-09 06:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257220304 feature 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257221110 1. The photographs reveal the footballs in a stark and beautiful light, nakedly exposing their battered textures as well as their environmental impact on the world. Mandy’s photographic style sees the objects delicately suspended in a celestial blackness reminiscent of the blackness of the deep sea representing “the fact that plastic debris has no boundaries, plastic is found from the sea bed to the sea surface, from the polar regions to the equator”, says Mandy.

“Creating these compositions visually portrays infinity suggesting there is unlimited waste being created. Time serves as a metaphor in that stars in the universe can take several years for their light to reach us, but plastic items that go unseen floating in the ocean do not biodegrade for hundreds of years.”
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/mandy-barker-penality-series-photography-260918

2.I then photoshop them together in three layers. This technique creates a depth of suspension, which hopefully makes you feel like you’re looking under the sea. I initially took pictures of plastics as I found them on the shoreline, but found people weren’t as interested as they see rubbish all the time on the streets. The whole point of making them attractive is to engage an audience and then deliver all the shocking facts and statistics.
https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2019/04/waves-of-plastic-behind-the-lens-with-photographer-mandy-barker/]]> 2022-08-09 06:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257221110 convey 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257224278 Mandy Barker’s work blends unwavering artistic vision with collaborative scientific research, digging into the hard-hitting issue of plastic in the ocean and how it’s destroying habitats, killing wildlife and contributing to our planet’s extinction. At first glance, Mandy’s work is beautiful and arresting. However, when you give your attention to her captions, you learn these intricately crafted pieces are actually made up of some of the one hundred and fifty million tonnes of plastic currently circulating our planet’s waters. It was disheartening to recognise items we use regularly in her photos and to be forced to acknowledge that we are culprits in this assault against our environment. Mandy’s work relays the haunting reality of what’s to come for the human race if we do not sit up, take action, and save our planet.
https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2019/04/waves-of-plastic-behind-the-lens-with-photographer-mandy-barker/]]> 2022-08-09 06:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257224278 story 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257912716 In Angela’s words…..“In 2010 I founded the educational non-profit Washed Ashore because I was shocked and heartsick at the amount of plastic. I found on the Pacific beaches in Oregon. I had known since childhood. I had recently lost my husband of 25 years to brain cancer and moved to the ocean to heal. Instead, I found an ocean that needed healing. 

In my daily beach walks searching for a new meaning in life I kept seeing more and more plastic until one day I saw a mosaic of tiny plastic pieces that reached as far as my eye could see. I was sick to my stomach. I realized that plastic had been chewed up by the ocean and spit out into the size of sand. After doing research on the internet, I realized that animals were ingesting it, and our ecosystems were in danger. I vowed to save the ocean and use my skills as an artist and educator to carry the message to the public. I found my new purpose in life.”
https://www.tiredearth.com/interviews/tired-earth-an-interview-with-angela-haseltine-pozzi-founder-and-artistic-director-of-the-washed-ashore-project

]]> 2022-08-10 04:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2257912716 add to padlet 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2258092397 3. What have you learnt about art activism on this course, and how would you like to engage with art activism in the future?]]> 2022-08-10 09:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2258092397 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260778062 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4053098]]> 2022-08-15 00:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260778062 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260778144 https://mission.cmaquarium.org/help-reduce-ocean-debris/]]> 2022-08-15 00:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260778144 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260784450 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWscgg_Prqj/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=]]> 2022-08-15 00:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260784450 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260786224 https://taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2020/08/14/2003741648]]> 2022-08-15 00:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260786224 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260790065 https://gearjunkie.com/boats-water/diver-ocean-trash-pollution-video]]> 2022-08-15 00:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260790065 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260790786 https://grist.org/article/meet-the-guy-swimming-through-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/]]> 2022-08-15 00:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260790786 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260792428 http://oceanblues.brightonmuseums.org/our-plastic-ocean-by-mandy-barker/behind-the-scenes-with-mandy-barker/]]> 2022-08-15 00:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260792428 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260792651 https://creativemornings.com/talks/angela-haseltine-pozzi]]> 2022-08-15 00:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260792651 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260964722 https://www.uca.ac.uk/campuses/virtual-tour/farnham/]]> 2022-08-15 06:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260964722 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260966714 https://www.wwf.eu/?1891441/Factsheet-reducing-the-mortality-of-marine-turtles]]> 2022-08-15 06:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260966714 2211480 https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260968559 https://www.pinterest.se/pin/289145238581907665/]]> 2022-08-15 06:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/2211480/a6ez9sg61luwtty7/wish/2260968559