American Literary Magazine
Artist’s Statement: Using the source imagery of a dead bird killed by pollution, I filled its abdomen with trash that I had collected from friends and myself over the course of several weeks. The background is a surrealist rendering of a newly discovered plastic eating amoeba. When these two images are combined, they create a cycle of deadly and never ending consumption that mirrors our own endless hunger for plastic.
Sophia Salganicoff
eating plastic Medium: oil, acrylic, found objects, and trash on canvas
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