Plastic Poetry 010
St. Mary’s Cathedral School
In September 2023, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their tenth 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 Crystal Rose Nieves, a student from St. Mary’s Cathedral School commissioned by O, Miami. The five-inch letters are rendered in 2.93 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2023.
St. Mary’s Cathedral School’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S SUNROON PROGRAM: 2022-23
Participants: 47
Plastic Recycled: 2.93 lbs
Untitled
BY CRYSTAL ROSE NIEVES
JUST BECAUSE I LOOK WEAK
DOESN’T MEAN I AM. I MAY
NOT KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT I CAN
LEARN. JUST BECAUSE I’M A WOMAN
DOESN’T MEAN I CAN’T DO BETTER
THAN A MAN. I’M NOT WEAK BECAUSE
I AM A WOMAN. I’M A WOMAN
AND STRONG.
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.
