crunch and crackle, 2025
Polyester toy made in the Global South, plastic trash from the Global North
“To witness it first-hand, it is incredibly visceral. There is now so much plastic inside the birds you can feel it on the outside of the animal when it is still alive. As you press on its belly … you hear the pieces grinding against each other. That changes people.”
— Dr. Jen Lavers PhD, on the Flesh-footed Shearwaters of Lord Howe Island