GOALWhatonEarth Update
Andrew and Sarah-Eva are working hard getting their globes ready for auction.
Both Andrew and Sarah-Eva have been invited to decorate a globe sculpture for GoalWhatoneEarth; to be auctioned off to help raise much needed funds for vulnerable people in the world.
What On Earth is a unique collection of 100 resin globe sculptures which are being painted and decorated by some of Ireland’s top artists and celebrities. They will then be put on public display to form a series of Public Art Exhibition’s which will tour a number of key cities on the island of Ireland, in late summer 2018 before being auctioned off in late October to raise valuable funds for GOAL enabling the continuation of work to ease the plight of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
THIS WEEK’S
GLOBE UPDATE
How are you going to decorate your Globe Sarah-Eva?
Title: #Oceanhero by Sarah Eva Manson
Indoor piece - This globe represents the struggle of single use plastic. Every piece of plastic ever made is still here.
The water areas will be covered with soft, single use plastic and painted with a metallic paint. The texture of the plastic being important not the labels etc. I don’t want to blame any single company so painting is important.
The layers of plastic are about the amount of plastic in our oceans:
More than eight million tonnes of plastic is thrown away each year and washed out to sea. It takes centuries to break down. It's eaten by marine creatures and ends up in our food chain – we are eating toxic plastic waste.
The land areas will be covered with preserved moss - this moss represents the fragility of life.
The metallic paint of the water area will offset the colour of the green moss and make it look really nice. This will allow the vibrant greens to really pop.
The Moss itself will be harvested Organic Wicklow Moss: Brachythecium Species, preserved professionally by me right here in my studio.
Manufacturers churned out 311 million tonnes of the material in 2014 alone. A drink bottle can take 450 years to break down, while a plastic fishing line could last for 600 years.
We need to stop using single use plastics like straws; I saw a video of one being pulled out of a Turtles nasal cavity and I was so disturbed by it I immediately vowed to cut down on plastic
Plastic is nearly impossible to avoid
This is why supermarkets need to step up, take some responsibility and help fix this problem.Let’s all be an #Oceanhero and swap out single use plastic from our lives.
Tell us about your Globe Andrew.
This Globe will be visually busy, with the oceans predominating and red. On the seas will be battleships (as from the game of battle ships)
The land areas will be mainly black and white, belligerent, areas actually at war, experiencing famine, or the risk of famine and nuclear powers will be painted in as on a political globe and rendered as painted collages, representing newspaper cuttings images of suffering, war or revolt against repression.
Drawing on the film ‘Wargames’ where Professor Falcon had developed the unwinnable game “Thermonuclear War” and the film’ Dr Strangelove’ and its’ end phase, where the ‘Doomsday machine’ automatically responds to the unrecalled B52 launching its weapon on an insignificant tertiary target, by obliterating everything.
I will add to the outside of the previously painted globe coloured translucent lines arching proud off the surface to represent missile tracks.
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