We Are All Just a Little Bit Plastic Now - Skip Snow

Cyanotype Photograms
c. 2022
On Loan from the Artist
 
Skip Snow
b.1951

Skip Snow is an active GFAA Member and Volunteer and has been showing a lot of his work in the monthly gallery exhibitions.

Skip worked for the National Park Service for 38 years, Skip worked for the National Park Service for 38 years, the last 25 at Everglades National Park. There, he has, among other things, evaluated the effects of water management on park wildlife, worked to reintroduce native pineland birds, and spent considerable time trying to figure out what might be done about invasive non-native animals, especially, the Burmese python. Since retiring in 2013, Skip has been pursuing a keen interest in the intersection of art and science. His artwork is varied, including assemblage, painting, sculpture, digital, and land art. He is an avid walker and plays the ukulele.

These images are made from plastic debris and other materials found in the Deering Estate marine waters, These images are made from plastic debris and other materials found in the Deering Estate marine waters, mangroves, and on the streets and sidewalks of neighboring Village of Palmetto Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Waste is a design flaw, and this piece bears witness to the astonishing abundance and diversity of plastic to the astonishing abundance and diversity of plastic waste brought about by linear (non-circular) human intent. It is a story of failure to think about the end in the beginning. Framing these things in the human end in the beginning. Framing these things in the human image, these deliberately designed once useful objects, acknowledges the human intent required to make them. The “ghost like shadows,” the “x-ray,” or “latent image” effect of the photogram process suggests something of the discarded plastic object remains in the human system. This remnant is informed by the growing body of science that questions the impact the growing body of science that questions the impact plastics may be having on human health, the food we eat, and the water we drink. – Skip Snow