Plastic Poetry 008
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center
On October 28, 2022, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their eighth 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.
The text was written by Juan, a camper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center’s Summer by the Sea camp in 2022. The five-inch letters are rendered in 2.51 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2021 and 2022.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
Summer by the Sea Program: Summer 2022
Participants: 38
Plastic Recycled: 2.51 lbs
The Lovely Ocean
BY JUAN
The sky is giant like a whale in the ocean
it is so giant that you could sail across the world in it
but I prefer to spend time with people I love
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.
