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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Sian Ka'an.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just south of Tulum\Non Mexico's Caribbean coast,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a federally protected reserve,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the most diverse\Nregions on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I first visited in 2010,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was horrified and completely confused
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to why the beach was covered in trash.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I soon realized that it was floating in\Nfrom all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've since returned after\Nthat first journey several times a year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to visit Sian Ka'an,\Nto the country of my birth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work with this trash,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so far we've documented garbage\Nfrom 58 different countries and territories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on six continents,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all washing ashore\Nin this paradise in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although I can never know\Nwhere a product was dropped,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can at times, based on the label,\Nknow where something was made.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In red, you see all of the countries\Nrepresented by their trash
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Sian Ka'an,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as these Haitian butter containers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all shapes and sizes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jamaican water bottles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not surprisingly, a lot of the stuff\Nis from neighboring Caribbean countries,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the stuff is from everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a sampling\Nof international water bottles,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the ironies is that\Na lot of what I'm finding
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are products for cleaning\Nand beautification,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as this item from the United States,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is actually made\Nto protect your plastic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shampoo from South Korea,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bleach from Costa Rica,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a Norwegian toilet cleaner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's items that are all\Nvery familiar to us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least I hope you're familiar\Nwith these toothbrushes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kitchen utensils.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Toys.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm also finding evidence\Nof burning plastic trash
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which released cancer-causing\Nfumes into the air.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People ask what's the most\Ninteresting item that I've found,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's by far this prosthetic leg,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in the background if you can see\Nthat blue little bottle cap,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the time that I found it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was actually the home\Nto this little hermit crab.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This guy is so cute.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's these fascinating objects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also horrifying objects,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each with their own history,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I use to make my ephemeral\Nenvironmental artworks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it all started with this image\Nin February of 2010,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I first visited Sian Ka'an.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that blue was the most\Nprevalent color among the plastic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Purple is actually the most rare color.\NIt's kind of like gold to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But blue is the most prevalent,\Nand so I gathered some of the blues
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made this little arrangement\Nin front of the blue sky
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and blue Caribbean waters,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I took a photograph\Nand looked at the test shot,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was like a lightning bolt\Nhit me in that moment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I knew I was going\Nto have to come back
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create a whole series\Nof installations on location
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and photograph them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this turned out to be a sketch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a work that I completed\Nthree years later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had no idea that\Nalmost 10 years later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost a decade later,\NI'd still be working on it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the problem persists.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I'm going to show you\Nsome of the images
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the series that I called "Washed Up:\NTransforming a Trashed Landscape."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please keep in mind that\NI do not paint the garbage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm collecting it and organizing it\Nby color on the same beaches
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I find it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my pressure trash pile,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a scene in 2015
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after putting on a first edition\Nof the "Museo de la Basura,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Museum of Garbage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fully my intention\Nto care for this garbage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to exalt it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put it on a pedestal,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to curate it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have all seen devastating images
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of animals dying\Nwith plastic in their bellies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's so important for us\Nto really see those
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to take those in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's by making aesthetic,\Nsome might say beautiful arrangements
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the world's waste,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm trying to hook the viewer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to draw in those that might be numb\Nto the horrors of the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give them a different way\Nto understand what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some have described\Nthe Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an island twice the size of Texas,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I've been told that it's hard to see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's more like a smog,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so through my artwork,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I attempt to depict the reality\Nof what's happening with our environment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to make the invisible visible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My key question at first,\Nafter starting the project,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was, "What do I do\Nwith the garbage when I'm done?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was told by some\Nthat it could be damaged goods
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after traveling across the ocean\Nand being exposed to the elements,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it could become degraded\Nand potentially ruin a batch of recycling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The landfill was not\Na happy resting place either.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then finally, it dawned on me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after all of the effort by me\Nand all of the people who have helped me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collect and organize and clean this trash,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I should keep it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so that's the plan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use it and to reuse it endlessly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make more artwork
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to engage communities\Nin environmental artmaking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is an example
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a community-based\Nartwork that we did last year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the local youth\Nof Punta Allen in Sian Ka'an,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the key part of the community work\Nare the beach cleans
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the education programming,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as this community\Naround the project grows,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as my trash collection grows,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really believe that\Nthe impact will as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, over the years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've become a little obsessed\Nwith my trash collection.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pack into suitcases and travel with it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I take it on vacation with me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the latest work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've begun to break the two-dimensional\Nplane of the photograph.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm really excited about this new work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I see these as living artworks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will morph and grow over time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although my greatest wish
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I run out of\Nthe raw material for this work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're not there yet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the new phase of the project,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I plan on continuing the community work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making my own work\Nat a much larger scale,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the problem is massive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight million tons of plastic waste
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enter our oceans every year,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destroying ecosystems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, as I speak, there's literally\Nan oil spill of plastic happening.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see this project as a plea for help\Nand a call to action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our health and future\Nis inextricably linked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that of our oceans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call the project "Washed Up:\NTransforming a Trashed Landscape,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's actually transformed me\Nand made me rethink
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own behaviors and consumption.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if it can help anybody else\Ngain more awareness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it will have been worthwhile.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)