Ethan  Estess
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Found Coast

(Video) Plastic Fishing Lure. 2013
My travels for research and recreation bring me to coastlines around the globe, where unfailingly I find plastic objects and trash.  From buoys containing live fish and crabs to metal fishing traps this ongoing series of found object sculptures seeks to visualize the unfathomably broad impact of human waste in marine ecosystems.