Sundried Plastic
Community Engagement, 2018
SUNDRIED PLASTICS initialed in Shenzhen, China. Inviting the residents to be responsible for their community by putting trash into the main plastic bag which remind to care of the living environment.
Fall 2018, I moved to Shenzhen, China for two monthes. Everyday I was surprised just by walking in the community called “FU HUA New Village”, which was built in 1982 that contained 46 blocks and 1920 units. The neighbors are close to each other, and share their livings together. During my stay, one thing that is very different is they hang everything outside to let the sun dry, from laundry, duvet, bottles to beans and vegetables. However, China is developing with the speed that we could not imagine, people do not do their recycles and rely fully on street sweepers to deal with their trash. While online shopping and food delivery service create tremendous amount of packages, environmental issue should be taking care of. One day, I was observing the community and having fun in the outdoor museum, then I started to pick up the trash on the ground. In 15 minutes, there were 19 pieces of packages been tossed on the ground, then I stitched them together. As locals hung the clothes outside and dry, I hung SUNDRIED PLASTICS for people to be aware of the environmental issue, and ask them to participate with the project by putting trash in. After the bag was full, I then created another piece from it. In this project, hoping to restore the consciousness of recycling and the manner of caring the environment by putting trash inside the bin. Trashes we have ignored or thrown away on the street are actually having visual impact once we lay them out.