Plastic Poetry 003
Brucie Ball
Educational Center
In October 2021, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their third in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that mashes up an educational workshop on the realities of recycling and plastic pollution with community/beach cleanups, public art, and poetry.
The text was written by Sebastian, a student from Brucie Ball Educational Center during a 2021 workshop series, Poetry & Gardening—a four-part climate justice-focused workshop combining elements of poetry, painting, storytelling, and ecology. The five-inch letters are rendered in 18.06 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from a beach cleanup held at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center on June 26, 2021.
Brucie Ball Educational Center’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
Community Cleanup: June 26, 2021
Cleanup Participants: 36
Pollution Collected: 151 lbs
Plastic Reclaimed: 47 lbs
Plastic Recycled: 18.06 lbs
Untitled
BY SEBASTIAN — A BRUCIE BALL EDUCATIONAL CENTER STUDENT
UNIQUE MANGROVE WHO STROVE TO BE THE TALLEST! HIS PRICKLES WERE ONE OF THE SMALLEST. WHO KNEW THAT ITS SMELL WAS THE SALTIEST? AND ITS ROOTS WERE THE DRIEST! TIME TO TIME IT GREW LIKE THE MANGROVE IT WAS GOING TO BE. AND WHO KNEW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL TREE!
Plastic Poetry 003 is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic in partnership with Brucie Ball Educational Center and is made possible with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation | Crearte; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the National Endowment for the Arts. With thanks to Dr. Amrita Prakash, Raquel Quiñones, Donnie Welch, and the Poetry Coalition. Learn more at O, Miami.
