Plants, Plastics, Recycling and Waste
1 Andrew Soltysiak
Plastic Distortion
2 Victoria Rios
Macro/Micro Perspectives of a Plant
3 Caleb Rabadan
Keep the Rubbish Out
4 Trina Wetzel
Trashed Data
5 Clarissa Fortis
Burning Energy
6 Gerardo Anguiano-Acosta,
Kevin Dang, Danielle Valentine
Recycled Paper
1. Andrew Soltysiak
Plastic Distortion
In a response to the increase in plastic waste over the years and its wide distribution around the planet, the artist depicts patterns composed of plastics.
2. Victoria Rios
Macro/Micro Perspectives of a Plant
By recording the growth of a calathea plant, Victoria Rios observed new leaves unfurling. “Through documenting,” she notes, “I began to notice subtle shifts that would not be as clear without the medium of photography.”
3. Caleb Rabadan
Keep the Rubbish Out
Caleb Rabadan visualizes the exchange of waste between the United States and China from 1996 to the projected year, 2028. By graphing waste generation and recycling per capita, the animation pictures the import/export relationship between the two countries, based on waste.
4. Trina Wetzel
Trashed Data
Trina Wetzel walked three miles with a pair of rubber gloves collecting trash at the beach between Pacific Street Linear Park and Oceanside Harbor Lot 12. Along the way, she picked up the pieces of trash contained in the jars. These jars materialize data.
5. Clarissa Fortis
Burning Energy
The electricity used on campus over the past years is depicted by the amount of candle burned. The candles show a steady increase in usage as the student population increased, with shorter candles indicating greater usage.
6. Gerardo Anguiano-Acosta, Kevin Dang, Danielle Valentine
Recycled Paper
The plexi graph, originally conceived by the listed student artists, was recreated by Kodie Gerritsen of DaTA Lab to show the amount of paper recycled annually at CSUSM: the growing paper within the columns show the steady upswing in recycling on campus.
