In Galveston, plastic debris art speaks for the fishes
Larry Jackson, with the Galveston Island Park Board, maneuvers the “Priscilla the Parrot Fish” sculpture onto the sidewalk at Saengerfest Park in Galveston on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. The large sculpture, made from plastic debris from the beaches in Oregon, is one of 20 being displayed around the island through March 5.GALVESTON — The two colorful sculptures recently installed at Saengerfest Park are aestheically pleasing from a distance.
“Octavia the Octopus,” also in Saengerfest Park, is made of lighters, beach toys, a dog leash handle, plastic goose decoy, buoys, a plastic chair, a cooler, a microwave oven, a car radio, a plastic cooler and a construction pole that most likely came from Japan during the 2011 tsunami, Parks said. Galveston is the first place they have ever been displayed outside a paid gate, however, thanks to the Park Board of Trustees, said Katie Dougherty, executive director of Washed Ashore.
The first step is to talk about what animal is being harmed by the plastic pollution in the ocean, Ruby said. After that, a team sets up different designs of poses for the animals, she said. “We select all the plastic that we’re going to use,” Ruby said. “We don’t paint or use any polymers for our sculptures besides the plastic that we’ve collected from the beaches.”
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