Alejandro Duran’s Washed Up project is an ongoing project that involves finding new meaning for plastic waste products. Duran’s unique skill for upcycling everyday plastic products into art installations that blend into nature shines through with his pieces that include plastic waste from fifty nations on six continents.
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The Mexican-born, now New York-based artist Alejandro Duran strives to address the issue of plastic pollution. His site specific color-based sculptures merge man-made products into an untouched natural environments in such a way that seem organic to the space.
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His ‘Washed Up’ photo series depicts colonization by consumerism and speaks to “the environmental concerns of our time and its vast quantity of discarded materials. The alchemy of Washed Up lies not only in converting a trashed landscape, but in the project’s potential to raise awareness and change our relationship to consumption and waste.”
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