Plastic Poetry 007
Theodore R. and Thelma A. Gibson Charter School
On July 29, 2022, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their seventh 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 Elijah Clark, a fifth grade student from Theodore R. and Thelma A. Gibson Charter School as part of O, Miami’s Sunroom Program in 2022. The five-inch letters are rendered in 2.60 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2021 and 2022.
Theodore R. and Thelma A. Gibson Charter School’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, Miami’s Sunroon Program: Spring 2022
Participants: 38
Plastic Recycled: 2.60 lbs
Dreamer
BY ELIJAH CLARK
As my friends are
having fun,
I get tired.
I do a lot of work.
I have dreams.
When you get them you can be free
in your own heart.
See, I know what it
feels like
to be a dreamer.
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.
