Plastic bottles and bags are very popular plastic items, which eventually find their way to the ocean where they harm sea life. In one of my first projects senior year, I chose to turn a turtle into a bottle to represent how simple it is for plastic to impact an animal and how the plastic totally controls the life of these animals. One of my next pieces, the gravestone, was created to represent how plastic causes death. This piece is a simple gravestone partially covered in plastic bags. The plastic bottle and turtle demonstrate a specific creature being affected by plastic. Three of my pieces, pictured below the whale tail, are incomplete. The plan was to glaze them and add real plastic to them as mixed media. The rest of the work is from past years.

Every single piece of mine took hours of creativity and dedication. With senior year ending the way it did, it was quite difficult to finish the year off on a good note and I was not able to fully complete each of my pieces and look at them all together. I was unable to finish many of my pieces pertaining to my theme of plastic in the ocean and they are currently not glazed. Although, what I have learned from this experience is that it is so important to use the time you have to be creative and get work done.