This art installation by artist Tan Zi Xi explores plastic pollution from the perspective of sea life, immersing the viewer in an ocean of plastic. Channeling the imagery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Tan Zi Xi creates an environment that is both alien in experience, but familiar in subject matter. Xi even directly references the negligent and wasteful mentalities of our single-use society, stating that "When we start to study and be conscious of our waste, it will hit home just how unsustainable our culture of convenience is" (11). This perspectives shifts from the usual human centric point of view, where instead viewers are invited to consider the conditions in which sea life experiences plastic pollution, not just in isolated locations, but immersivity all around them.

These two pieces by renowned Dominican artist Tony Capellán intend to make political statements using the remnants of plastic pollution he found along particular beaches. Like many of his previous works, Capellán is attempting to make a statement about our disposable centric lifestyles, and individualized human experiences of pain exacerbated by climate change. The first piece, "Mar Caribe", uses lost flipflops laced with barbed wire to mimic an ocean view, where from afar the piece looks pleasant, but only when one gets closer, do its individual pieces and alarming appearance become visible. The second piece, "Mar Invadido", uses a similar technique, but its message is more about confronting the view with the wasteful consumer culture that is constantly ignored despite its consequences being so near. As a secondary note for both works, just as plastic is malleable, these art installations are arranged by hand, every time in different physical contexts. They are every changing in form but remain singular in message and deliberate aesthetic organization.

Built by Cod Steaks, and initiated by Artists Project Earth, "The Bristol Whales" depicts and awe inspiring image of two whales wading through an ocean of bottles. Made from a combination of weaved willow, and some 70,000 plastic bottles, not only is it impressive in scale, but the responsibly sourced materials speak to the overall message of the piece. With the rather fragile willow weave, the whole art piece "represents the beauty and fragility of our oceans and the increasing human threats that they face," and as a sort of hopeful message, the creators assured that each of the bottles used will be properly recycled. However, while beautiful, this piece may also be seen as a rather tragic image of fragile, yet gentile organisms experiencing an ocean overrun with plastic to a greater degree than what we currently have.

Soler Arpa’s "Toxic Life" evokes ideas of both plastic consumption within an ecosystem and subsequent mutation. While these may be fiction creatures from Arpa's imagination, the plastic which lines their innards is reminiscent of other pieces which mimic the bodies of animals ready prepared for anatomical display, filled to the brim with plastic which the creature may have consumed. Not only does this speak to possible futures of mutation as a result of pollution, but also how animals often mistake our waste as food, but in this case not only do they consume it, they embody it. Plastic replaces their organs in away that evokes the idea that they themselves have become plastic. An organism altered by the consequences of our actions.