I have used some of these images in conversations in webinars and presentations and even released them as work in progress to some social media channels. I realised that I had not actually placed them into my CRJ.
This is a blending of the abstract work and exploration of images with a topical subject. This direction came about when I started exploring the abstract processing on more normal images. I felt that this was a major success in that it highlights a social problem that we are all facing, that of pollution in our oceans.
A beer bottle on a shoreline may not be seen but make it purple to highlight it, a sauce bottle oozing red.
This body of work has been well received by the public through social channels and has opened up avenues to explore for exhibiting them and continuing this as a further project.
I have further experimented with this avenue having collected shoreline plastics and pollution to bring home to utilise macro photography. I feel that macro photography lends itself to this process both in abstraction and the pollution aspect with the microplastic and small items. I have yet to explore the macro in pure abstract but think that it will provide some very clear results.
At this stage, I feel that I will include some of the images in the final work in progress presentation, however, it may be a distraction from the exploration of the abstract. With some weeks still to go before that has to be finalised things may change. I do not think the clipper lighter is too successful as the actual lighter is lost in the sea of red. The red only works on select images. I find the drum of carbon remover is a great piece and I could see that displayed in a book or exhibition with the safety sheet next to it to show how toxic this drum is.
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