Date of Award
6-2018
Document Type
Project
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art
Department
Art
First Reader/Committee Chair
Gray, Katherine
Abstract
Plasticozoic excavates humanity’s relationship to nature and to ourselves through plastic artifacts of consumer culture, which were recovered from oceans and beaches by the artist, or sent to her from around the world. Through created specimens and collected fragments of the Anthropocene, it considers the precariousness of our place in time, where misperceptions of reality and the collective impact of our every day lives can have global effects.
"Future geologists will be able to precisely mark our era as the Plasticozoic, the place in the sands of time in which bits of plastic first appeared." -Oceanographer A. Sylvia Earle, The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Recommended Citation
Conner, Mariah, "Plasticozoic" (2018). Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations. 746.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/746