"A Naked Plastic Sea" new work to be exhibited in Zipolite, Mexico 

 

 
For several decades I have spent in depth time in remote locations around the world documenting and creating artworks about the wild, the free, the misunderstood. In what the anthropologists are now called the Anthropocene Age, the period during which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment, we can now add human wildness to the list of endangered species.
It has been 5 years since I first, sought permission to photograph people in the nude along Zipolite beach. In this small exhibition, I thank my models for their participation, Victor for his generous exhibition space at Heven, my Spanish teachers -  Mirna and Ariadna, Lete and Ernesto for collecting all the plastic beer can rings in their store.
This exhibition marks a departure where I use the naked body as a metaphor for a sea polluted by plastic. Images of turtles are integrated alongside a nude sea-side figure. The collages focus on what it would be like to view the world through the lens of discarded plastic rings as a sea-turtle would do.
            I photographed turtles at the National Mexican Turtle Centre, Mazunte. However plastic six-pack rings often litter the sea shore and occasionally ensnare a turtle leading to its death. 

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Maureen Enns, 2017
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