In "Pre-mortem," I use a simple, clear plastic bag to explore the profound and often overlooked impact of plastic waste on our environment and ourselves. The plastic bag, an everyday object, becomes a powerful symbol of suffocation, entrapment, and contamination—forces that silently shape our world.
Pre-Mortem explores the suffocating impact of plastic pollution on our environment and ourselves, drawing from both science and spirituality. Through images of my own body wrapped in a plastic cocoon within the landscapes of our lives. The plastic bag, an everyday object, becomes a powerful symbol of suffocation, entrapment, and contamination—forces that silently shape our world. The cocoon symbolizes confinement and disregard, reflecting how these actions have contaminated creation and encased us within cycles of peril.
Inspired by Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’, which calls for “ecological conversion,” this series suggests that environmental harm is not only a scientific issue but a profound ethical failure.
By blending scientific awareness with a faith perspective, this series seeks to inspire reflection and responsibility, advocating for an approach to environmental care rooted in compassion and reverence for all creation.
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Pre-Mortem: a managerial strategy in which a project team imagines that a project or organization has failed, and then works backward to determine what potentially could lead to the failure of the project