Trash Mandala Project Opening

- Private group -
Mon, 09/03/2018 - 8:15am

I’m super excited about The Trash Mandala Project. The project is a collaboration between me- an awkward activist and photographer Jim Dugan.  The project is designed to raise awareness and create conversation about ocean pollution and solutions. 

Over the past few years I’ve moved from awareness about plastic pollution to awkward activism.  I’ve been searching for a way to approach people that’s positive and not preachy. I’ve noticed especially on social media that I see either breathtaking photos of nature or heartbreaking shots of beaches being consumed by plastic trash. A light bulb went off when I saw photographer Jim Dugan’s mandala series.

A mandala is a Hindu or Buddhist symbol of the universe or a graphic bearing a multiple projection of an image.  What I love about Jim’s mandala series is how an object- I hesitate to use “ordinary” is transformed into another dimension.   In our Trash Mandala Project trash is transformed into a work of art while still being what it is- trash found in or near the ocean.

Each mandala documents the trash found in a specific location and the profits from the sale of prints supports a non-profit working to educate and find solutions to ocean pollution.

The opening is part of Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk.  Visit us upstairs in Jim’s studio 407 Main St, upstairs on Friday Sept 7th.