Sidney, Europe Brief News – An Australia-based environmental artist made sculptures from the rubbish she finds on the beaches of Sydney.
Nearly every morning, the artist Marina DeBris heads down to her local beach in Sydney to collect rubbish that has washed ashore overnight.
“I cannot go a day. I feel guilty if I go a day without coming down here. I’m pretty much the only one who collects on this beach that I know of. So, I feel like I’m kind of the steward of this particular beach and it’s pretty bad. I also like it can get really bad.”
DeBris’s works are made wholly of reused materials from the connecting wires to her hand drill, which she found dumped on the street.
She doesn’t clean or alter the rubbish before using them in her works preferring to confront her viewers with the rubbish rather than glorify it.
“Certainly it’s ugly, it’s an ugly subject. I just want people to react in a way where they kind of gasp and take notice of how much waste we’re putting out in the ocean. Not intentionally, it’s not being chucked out there. It’s just by way of. There’s many ways that rubbish enters the ocean and a lot of it is just accidentally.”
