Harvesting the Ocean for Art

“I want to reach people who might throw something on the beach and not think about it, and I want them to start to think about it.”

Plastic is pervasive in the oceans. From giant plastic garbage patches to plastic nano-particles finding their way into sea life and thus humans. Angela Haseltine Pozzi is using the plastic flotsam to create sculpture.

Haseltine Pozzi gathers plastic bottle caps, cocktail toothpicks, shotgun shell casings and detergent bottles that wash up on her hometown beach at the town of Bandon on the southern Oregon coast. The debris come from as far away as Asia and Europe. So far, she has fabricated eighty life-size animals, real and imagined: a jellyfish made of golf balls, sharks from flip flops and plastic lighters. Haseltine Pozzi Haseltine Pozzi gathers plastic bottle caps, cocktail toothpicks, shotgun shell casings and detergent bottles that wash up on her hometown beach at the town of Bandon on the southern Oregon coast. The debris come from as far away as Asia and Europe. So far, she has fabricated eighty life-size animals, real and imagined: a jellyfish made of golf balls, sharks from flip flops and plastic lighters.

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