This summer I have been given the opportunity to work as a volunteer "explainer" for a spectacular, but sad, art exhibit called Washed Ashore by artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi. This beautiful set of 15 sculptures (and a photo-mosaic) is being held at the Sausalito/Marin Headlands area-based Marine Mammal Center. The Center is the world's largest marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation hospital, serving 600+ miles of California coastline, and receiving an average of 600-800 rescue patients per year. From June 25-October 15 of 2011, they are holding this wonderful exhibit made entirely of trash that washed up on 60 miles of Oregon beach. (40 miles of that 60 were completely cleared of trash-- score!) This compilation of trash sculptures is meant to, and does, inform us of how lacking our care of our oceans is.
Keep our oceans blue-- recycle and DO NOT LITTER.
For more information, check out the links below.
Links:
Official Washed Ashore website: http://www.washedashore.org/
Angela Pozzi's website: http://www.seathingsart.com/galleries.html
Marine Mammal Center: http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/
