From the shores of Hawaii to Alaska and the Greek isles, Pam Longobardi has witnessed the same upsetting scene countless times — huge fishing nets, plastic bottles, broken toys and unrecognizable remains of plastic objects fouling an otherwise beautiful landscape.
“For me, plastic has come to stand for the heavy hand of human presence in every corner of the globe,” says Longobardi, a professor in Georgia State’s Welch School of Art and Design and a resident of the Brookhaven Heights neighborhood.
“It is the symbol of wanton and thoughtless production and consumption, a lazy and greedy sucking up of energy and resources at the cost of all other life on the planet.”
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For the past seven years, Longobardi has crisscrossed the globe to document sea pollution, often collecting bags full of trash and using the items she finds to create works of art designed to raise awareness of the problem.
Read more about Longobardi's work and see photos at www.gsu.edu.
