“GYRE: The
Plastic Ocean,” will now be traveling to the Natalie & James
Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. This
exhibit spotlights an international group of artists focused on trash in the
oceans. What’s happening in the Gyre is
too far off shore for people to understand the destruction. Even seeing the spinoff masses of trash along
beaches doesn’t give us the scope of the problem.
But like
plastic floating along the currents, information follows currents too. “GYRE: The
Plastic Ocean,” first opened at the Anchorage Museum in in Alaska,
then with the aid of the Smithsonian, “GYRE” moved to the David J.
Spencer CDC Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. After several months it traveled to the
USC Fisher Museum in Los Angeles and now opens in San Jose on February 2, 2016.
Since the
time several years ago when I read a little ‘News of the Weird’ article about
the ‘Great Garbage Patch’, so many more people have become aware of the gyre.
Information is flowing in from all over. Some people even have ideas on how to
clean up our rivers, lakes and oceans. The value of water is rising!
Attached are three of my drawings of birds, turtles and whales affected
by trash in the oceans.
