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Plastic tracing is a concept based on “beautiful provocation”, using recycled single-use plastic as trace of expression to raise awareness of the damages caused by single-use plastic.

Year 2021 at RCA




Plastic pollution

Our dependence on single-use plastics has now become unmanageable and unstoppable, and plastic pollution is everywhere: from our body through the food chain to the more remote ocean side. The damages of single-use plastic into five main directions, soil, air, body, ocean and society. And they are affected mutually.


Colour

I collected single-use plastics in everyday life and sorted the plastics by colours using the colour wheel. 

Then, I divided the colour palette into four groups, soil, body, ocean and air, corresponding to the four main damages cased by single-use plastics.






Inspiration

Got inspiration from recycled plastic in interior design and abstract expressionism. 




Texture on single-use plastics




Natural dye



Experiments

Single-use plastics mark making using remained natural dye liquid




Single-use plastics mark making using natural pigments