Plastic Critter Evolution: Lightscape @ San Antonio Botanical Garden

Bioluminescent creatures glow from beyond the white picket fence of the children’s vegetable garden (November 19, 2021 – January 2, 2022).

This body of work is a series of creatures that have supposedly evolved from plastic trash polluting the oceans. (There are already microorganisms that eat plastic.) They are beautiful with pattern, texture, (all Tar Gel etchings,) and bioluminescence, but slightly disturbing since they are not a natural evolution. What will be the result? Are they monsters in colorful clothing, actually dangerous to the human ecosystem?

~Margaret Craig
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