Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Photograph © Luka Alagiyawanna
Wherever we go in nature, we can see traces humans leave and the effect we have on this planet. Especially at the beach we can see everything that ends up in the ocean collected at the shore. Looking at entangled ropes, chips of plastic mixed into sand, sea creatures whose bodies grew brutally limited into the shapes of plastic materials, the tragic impact of pollution could not be more prominent.
Intertwined with natural materials, human-made materials seem to become one with the eco systems and appear to be inseparable. With a lot of effort and energy we started cleaning up our environment, but were treating symptoms rather than the cause.
This is what is visualized in Ocean Cyanotypes - we cannot visually separate the human made items from natural matter anymore. Through the cyanotype process, the image reduces every object to its shape, and we can no longer distinguish the plastic straw from a piece of bamboo.
20 November
