My work represents human destructive habits and their planetary consequences. We rely on plastics in almost every aspect of our daily lives because they make things convenient for us. But what gets overlooked is how harmful they are to our planet and ourselves. Since plastics become more harmful to life the smaller they become, I chose to photograph microplastics with a microscope, enlarging them and making their details visible to the human eye. The microscope allows me to present the subject in an unfamiliar way, abstracting the material.

 

Each of these images of shimmering spheres shows microscopic beads of the plastic polyethylene.