Event 2

 This week I attended Jessica Irish's zoom meeting. She talked about how plastic is harming not only our Earth, but the human race and animals. 

From this meeting, I learned that micro plastic is now in almost everything. Micro plastics are in our food, water, environment, and even in rain. In 1940 plastic was created, for the most part plastic has been helpful for our everyday lives. It has been created to be helpful to us in order to store things, in buildings, transportation, and industrial machinery. The consequences of plastic is much bigger. Wild life in the ocean, for example, are dying from consuming plastic that is left in the ocean. Jessica's example she used were whales in the ocean. This example connected the issue with real life and it showed the serious consequences plastic has on not only the humans, but the animals as well. In addition, she had mentioned that there is now more built mass than natural ecosystems left on Earth. This is highly problematic because we are driving animals out of their homes and destroying land to build more cities and structures. 

As an artist, Jessica was able to create a film that helped bring awareness to serious problems in our world by collaborating with researchers and scientists. What I found interesting was her thought process for her film. She used a what/where/why/who/how approach that ultimately made her film so intriguing. This helped her target exactly what she wanted her film to be and what audience she wanted to reach and how to reach them. I also liked how she thought about how the hands in her film were like a visual narrator. We all touch plastic everyday and she mentioned how it shows that our skin is temporary, but plastic will outlast us. She did research and collaborated with scientists to look into plastic to get microscopic images and researchers to get statistical numbers. Her film made me think of how I can be more sustainable and make more conscious decisions to use less plastic.