Loose Thread
Loose Thread
May 2021 | Edinburgh
Diana Saab
Looking Into It
My series of photographs discuss the ideas of global warming and the pollution we bring with ourselves, without even realizing it. There has been an article publishes with the caption 'Microplastic pollution near summit of Mount Everest', which made me think about such topics and look at various works, exploring environmental problems. 'Humans now known to have polluted Earth from deepest ocean to highest peal' - phrase taken from this article was a starting point for me. I was thinking about water, ice, plastic, rubbish, pollution, climate change and what kink of ink/connection is there.
It was interestin to play around with an ordinary object such as an umbrella - an item that is supposed to cover us, hide us, protect us from the rain. I turned it all around, I decided to freeze umbrellas. You can think about it in a a way of a rock-paper-scissors game - rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock. This is a circle! However, in this work I changed it. Usually umbrella protects us, but here the water took over, became more powerful - this piece of plastic is uncomfortably stuck inside a block of ice.
Series of images I created are visually engaging, I want You to look closely! At first it is complicated to realize what exactly You are seeing. You need to zoom in, look into it, think about it.
Digital art, photography (series of photographs).