The Bleaching Hawk
Created using a frame covered with single-use plastic bags and straws placed on concrete. This piece represents the threat to turtles worldwide.
The turtle, with excessive barnacles due to bad health, swims over bleached coral. The title refers to the Hawksbill turtle and the phrase watching like a hawk over the dying ocean.
The concrete and single-use plastic represents the man-made threats to the turtle and the habitat, in the form of suffocation from plastic waste and unsustainable development leading to rising temperatures that results in gender imbalance and habitat destruction through coral bleaching.
Title: “The Bleaching Hawk”
Dimensions: 750mm x 610mm x 720mm*
Medium: Mixed Medium (Wire Frame and Single-use plastic bags)
About the author, Mariska
Hi and welcome! My name is Mariska. I am originally from South Africa, but now call the world my home. I am an artist, designer, environmentalist, podcast host and speaker.
I started the Mama Earth Talk podcast in 2018 to share some of the things that I learned about just how easy it can be to reduce your impact on the environment. This then quickly grew into a forum that showcases the amazing things that many people are doing to make the planet better, and further into a source of hope and inspiration for many. A few of the amazing guests include Zero Waste Queen, Bea Johnson, Claude Silver, Kathryn Kellogg and zero waste chef Max La Manna.
If you do not already I urge you to follow me and my journey on social media (@designbymariska), and to refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and rot your own waste using the handy tips I post!