On July 29, 2022, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their fifth in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that blends recycling plastics, plastic pollution, beach cleanups, public art, and poetry. This installation consisted of two poems by two Ferguson students with a combined total of 6.57 pounds of recycled plastic.
The text for Plastic Poetry 005.1 was written by Angelique Fuentes, a student from John A. Ferguson Senior High School in Evelyn Ulloa-Sanchez’s class as part of an open call for work for “Portrait at 34,” a project from Najja Moon commissioned by O, Miami. The five-inch letters are rendered in 2.65 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2021 and 2022.
The text for Plastic Poetry 005.2 was written by Luisa Ramos, a student from John A. Ferguson Senior High School in Evelyn Ulloa-Sanchez’s class as part of an open call for work for “Portrait at 34,” a project from Najja Moon commissioned by O, Miami. The five-inch letters are rendered in 3.92 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2021 and 2022.