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Angela, how exciting to see what you're doing! Such amazing art and such a worthwhile project. Thank you!

This reminded me of something I used to do quite a bit. If I had something that needed to be throw away because is was cracked or broken, I'd often find someplace in my yard to bury it. Not everything, of course, but something that strikes me as a potential "artifact."

I am an art teacher in Stavanger, Norway and I have run a unit in my MYP 3 class for the past 2 years called waste not want not, which asks the students to create a piece of art using only recycled materials which has a social message behind it. This clip is a perfect example of that and it will be a great tool to use to help create enthusiasm and understanding in my students. Thank you.

The beaches at South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii are littered with flotsam and jetsam from the world over. The effort to get to the beaches is remarkable, hours of driving on four wheel drive "roads" to clean up the trash deposited from the highways of the ocean. The birds living on outer Hawaiian Islands are dying from eating plastic, their decomposed tiny bodies a bundle of bones and feathers with plastic debris where their stomach should be. Thank you Angela for sharing the trash in a colorful and inspiring display.

I spend a LOT of time in the ocean. All over the world. NONE of my beaches are full of plastic litter. It simply for the most part, does not exist, as California does a pretty reasonable job of attending to litter. Indonesia, Asia, developing nations? That is another story.It is endemic there. I find it alarming that we would encourage this sort of messaging in our children. However, I love the art. It really is fantastic. But the messaging is remarkably misleading. "Affecting every beach in the world. Plastic is forever" Those statements are incredibly inaccurate. Or maybe I am just swimming and surfing the "wrong" beaches. Bottom line, send the right message. That could and maybe should be: The ocean is beautiful and the source of life. WE can be a solution simply by leaving a shallower, more thoughtful footprint and introducing people to the sea. It is not full of trash. But it could be.

What happens to all this plastic after the exhibition is over? The message is to reduce consumption and not to glorify the re-purposing of plastic trash...not the message we need.

I don't think we should make the things we want to rid the world of so beautiful and attractive. Counter-intuitive.

It will take the creativity from ALL of us to save our planet, whether it is to minimize consumption and/ or to reuse these products. Thank you Angela for putting a microscope to the horrors that mindless consumerism has created.

The innovative way in which Angela was able to create these marvelous works. I would call it Beauty and the Beast....us being the beasts. The beasts who litter and discard and have no thought as to the impact of what happens when we litter. Hopefully the children will learn to better care for our environment ... and perhaps some adults will take note as well. Thank you Angela!

Beautiful work,....I wish you could run out of material to make these sculptures.

the beauty of the collected items and the message it sends out...great job and very educational........

I am am very disappointed in the mess left by the folks visiting her beach allowing the "art works" she displays!
It makes me very proud of the folks visiting the Sleeping Bear Lakeshore in Northern Michigan who leave so little behind, that my visits cleaning up any refuse leaves me with little to dispose of.