A MATERIAL WORLD

Now materials...our eyes get wiser and our thoughts deeper.

We have to look around us and analyse all the surrounding components...

Although it could be evident. we do not usually accept saying we live in a "material world". This expression has, through time, acquired a quite negative meaning. In this case, it absolutely has not.

We, as human being and existing, are material, not only, but we could almost say, to be provocative, we are mostly material.

And also the air, although invisible to our eye-perception, is material too. As a matter of fact we can perceive it when we breath it and it goes through our lungs, so many times a days, to keep on leaving...so we could add we actually need materials..

We are completely both : surrounded and addicted to material, in a way, cause we are materials ourselves. But, actually, I think we do not often stop and look around us, and observe carefully everything. All this different patterns, textures, materials, colours....their use, their proprieties, their reason to be. Some a natural, some are synthethic, some a dull, some are intense, some are ... but the point is they are and they are so many of them!

And this is, I think, what we have been also asked in this material project, together with other tasks.

So I have tried and looked around me, touched, smelled and felt different emotions and sensations, depending on every different material I got in touch with.

Took pictures... And finally decided to focus myself on Plastic.

You're right! Plastic is such a vast and multi optional material, and it is probably one of the most evident and together unnoticed ones. Plastic is all around us, in our clothes, in our shopping, in technology, in transport, in class...

What would the world be without plastic? Yes, it would probably be less polluted, cause it is in fact a very difficult material to recycle...

But are we really able to live without plastic? Are we able to imagine a world without it? ... I do not know the answer. Before plastic, yes...but now?I am not very sure... what we can do, is do are best to recycle it.

I decided to focus on every days plastic bags and bottles. It was such an experience getting them at the supermarket! I ended up going everyday with a friend, buying one can of coke, paying at the self service after having blocked the queue cause of my stubbornness in wanting to pay at the self service, and getting out of the shop with 50 bags!! Lol...And suddenly they started having shape, and becoming a little orange plastic dress! Although I did, to be realistic I do not know how many people would really wear it! Lol