{"id":30487,"date":"2018-01-09T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=30487"},"modified":"2018-01-06T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T00:58:44","slug":"thirza-schaap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/thirza-schaap\/","title":{"rendered":"thirza schaap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Plastic Ocean”<\/em> is, unfortunately, an ongoing series by Thirza Schaap.<\/a> While her compositions and palettes are beautiful, her supplies are tragic. Here is her statement about this important project:<\/p>\n

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“As a child, I would walk over beaches and through fields and forests to collect beautiful shells, shimmering stones, feathers and funnily shaped branches.\u00a0Much later, after I had moved from Holland to South Africa, I found myself doing the same thing. Only to discover, that I started filling my pockets with trash instead of treasure.\u00a0Plastic from the Ocean – colourful and beautiful in its own tragic way.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Plastic Ocean\u2019 is an art project, which I started to create awareness around pollution to try and prevent\u00a0(or at least reduce) the use of plastic. In making artistic sculptures out of the objects I find, I try to evoke an emotional response \u00a0from my audience by creating a contradiction – a\u00a0clash between initial aesthetic attraction and after a second look\u00a0: repulsion and the realisation of the tragedy \u00a0trash causes. Our beaches are covered in plastic confetti and there really is nothing to celebrate.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

ps. You can follow along on Thirza’s Instagram feed<\/a>. Again, beautiful and tragic all in one breath.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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