Geo Crumbs Project

Making the invisible visible

We humans are excellent at leaving behind traces of our activities. Even a simple walk in the park seems to result in evidence on the trail. 

These are the crumbs, left inadvertently or purposefully, which are marking our existence, and contributing to pollution. 

We humans are also excellent at working towards solutions by following the crumbs. A tiny little easy solution is plalking (picking up litter while walking). That’s something you can do right away.

HAVE YOU PLALKED TODAY?

This page shows my work with all the “geo crumbs” I have picked up starting September 2022, on my (almost) daily walks. I have composed them into tiny artworks which were displayed in a secret woodland gallery from June to August of 2023.

All the trash/litter that I have picked up from September 22 to September 23, has been organized and catalogued. I chose encase it all in resin because I love how the resin (even though it is also plastic) reacts with glass, hard and soft plastic and other items. It is as though the resin intensifies the colors and the imperfections, and makes the plastic and glass transparent or translucent. In other words it makes the invisible, visible.

All the resin has been installed in the secret woodland gallery at the beginning of November 2023 and will stay there throughout the winter. I am curious who will notice it this time, and who will answer the questions in the Google form which is accessed by the QR code in the gallery. Below you will find photos of the installation and a short video of me welcoming you to the space. I look forward to hearing what everyone thinks.

This is the secret woodland gallery location: 40.96593° N, 73.74636° W

This is just the beginning… this is a project I intend to keep doing in many places.