Plastic Poetry 011.1 & 011.2
Charles R. Hadley Elementary School
In September 2023, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their eleventh and twelfth 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 Hadley students with a combined total of 6.02 pounds of recycled plastic.
The text for Plastic Poetry 011.1 was written by Andrés Ramirez, a student from Charles R. Hadley Elementary School commissioned by O, Miami.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 1.75 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2023.
The text was written by Marthina Stoppello, a student from Charles R. Hadley Elementary School commissioned by O, Miami.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 4.27 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2023.
Charles R. Hadley Elementary School’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S SUNROON PROGRAM: 2022-23
Participants: 93
Plastic Recycled: 6.02 lbs
UNTITLED
BY ANDRÉS RAMIREZ
ANTS:
TINY ANIMALS
BUT WITH STRONG FEELINGS
AND A STRONG HEART
AND A STRONG BRAIN
UNTITLED
BY MARTHINA STOPPELLO
MY GRANDPA IS ONE OF THE MOST SPECIAL
AND NICEST PEOPLE I’VE EVER MET.
IT MAKES ME EMOTIONAL BECAUSE HE
IS GOING THROUGH A LOT RIGHT NOW
WITH CANCER. MY OTHER GRANDPA DIED ALREADY,
BUT IT’S OKAY. HE HAD A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE.
I NEVER GOT TO MEET HIM, BUT THAT’S OKAY
BECAUSE I KNOW HE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH ME
IN MY HEART. THAT IS WHY I LOVE BOTH
OF MY GRANDPAS EQUALLY, WHETHER THEY
ARE IN THE SKY OR ON LAND. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THEM
FROM MY HEART TO THE SKY.
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic 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 Children’s Trust; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation | Crearte; The Miami Foundation; 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. Learn more at O, Miami.
