BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Kirsty Little: Refuse?REFUSE 35B+

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Kirsty Little: Refuse?REFUSE 35B+:

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On view in the Katzen Arts Center, June 15-August 11, 2019
While investigating plastic pollution in our oceans, Kirsty Little came up against huge numbers that she could not envisage. Americans use 35,000,000,000 (35 billion) plastic bottles each year. Plastic never biodegrades, it eventually just degrades to millions of dangerous nano plastics. Trillions of micro/nano plastics, virtually invisible to the human eye, are eaten by plankton and work their way up the food chain to our plates. We have barely reduced our plastic footprint since plastic production began only 50 years ago. Only 9 to 25 percent goes into recycling. The rest ends up in our oceans and landfills. Kirsty Little’s installation is one of the ways that she is working to raise consciousness about plastic pollution. She wants people to think about how many plastic items they use once and then discard. She wants to sensitize people to the costs of careless consumption and disposal of plastic.
To make this installation possible, Little worked with over 150,000 people, schools, and businesses that collected plastic lids and caps from their households and helped her construct individual numbers overflowing with plastic lids. By focusing on collecting plastic lids, they began to envisage plastic waste everywhere in their daily lives and started to reduce. The plastic used in this project filled every room in Little’s house. This is a tiny portion of the plastic garbage generated every second all over the world.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATREF_190614_08.JPG: Kirsty Little Refuse? REFUSE 35B+, 2017-2018
2. KATREF_190614_34.JPG: While investigating plastic pollution in our oceans, Kirsty Little came up against huge numbers that she could not envisage. Americans use 35,000,000,000 (35 billion) plastic bottles each year. Plastic never biodegrades, it eventually just degrades to millions of dangerous nano plastics. Trillions of micro/nano plastics, virtually invisible to the human eye, are eaten by plankton and work their way up the food chain to our plates. We have barely reduced our plastic footprint since plastic production began only 50 years ago. Only 9 to 25 percent goes into recycling. The rest ends up in our oceans and landfills. Kirsty Little's installation is one of the ways that she is working to raise consciousness about plastic pollution. She wants people to think about how many plastic items they use once and then discard. She wants to sensitize people to the costs of careless consumption and disposal of plastic. To make this installation possible, Little worked with over 150,000 people, schools, and businesses that collected plastic lids and caps from their households and helped her construct individual numbers overflowing with plastic lids. By focusing on collecting plastic lids, they began to envisage plastic waste everywhere in their daily lives and started to reduce. The plastic used in this project filled every room in Little's house. This is a tiny portion of the plastic garbage generated every second all over the world. About the artist: Kirsty Little is a former British Circus aerialist based in DC. In her artistic practice, she is drawn to working with themes of women's issues, anatomy, and the struggling environment. She makes sculpture with porcelain, wood and wire, and most recently plastic and fish installations, focusing on the ocean's present pollution crisis. She is resident artist at Otis Street studios and teaches aerial dance at Upspring studios. She is in the Guinness Book of World Records for directing the most aerialists choreographed on silks.
3. KATREF_190614_64.JPG: Kristy Little Refuse? REFUSE35B+ Over 35 billion single use plastic bottles used annually in America
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