Drowning in Plastic

My final project’s main goal is to make the viewers feel as if they are the animals in the ocean that are trapped and stuck in the plastics. I created a sound installation made out of plastic bags that is big enough for just one person so that the person will feel threatened by the small enclosed plastic space. When being in the enclosed space, the person inside will be overwhelmed by the plastic and feel as if he or she is “drowning in the plastic”.

For my sound recording edit, I strived to combine a different variation of plastic sounds such as squeezing, crunching, and smashing plastic bottles and plastic bags. By adding a sound of my heavy breathing, I intended to give a feeling of “suffocation” and “danger” imposed by these plastic materials. After recording each sound, I edited a composition where there are different levels of “danger” imposed. As the recording comes to an end, there is a higher tension of the plastics crunching up and heavily breathing sounds which allows the ‘listener’ to feel more threatened and in-danger.