Artistic Expression Speaks Out for World Oceans
© Jerry Takigawa
What Do You See Here?
A beautifully crafted Chinese game board?
A designer version of the betting game where the walnut shell gets hidden?
A surprisingly ordered set of colorful cups floating over a pebbled stream bed?
Which one is the subject of this unique artistic expression? Or is it none of these? And how does an albatross fit into the story?
A Pacific Ocean albatross
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Once Upon A Time, There Was An Albatross
The story starts with an albatross. Photographer and graphic designer Jerry Takigawa saw an aquarium worker holding up a jar filled with pieces of plastic. Colorful. Varied. Fun. And deadly.
The plastic remnants had been taken from the stomach of a dead albatross on Midway Atoll. The birds mistake the plastic for food, causing thousands of albatrosses to die of starvation each year.
Lighters, bottle caps, fishing lures,...
