The artist this week is Mandy Barker. She combines art and science to raise awareness about plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. “The aim of my work is to engage with and stimulate an emotional response in the viewer by combining a contradiction between initial aesthetic attraction along with the subsequent message of awareness. The research process is a vital part of my development as the images I make are based on scientific fact… I hope it will ultimately lead to positive action in tackling this increasing environmental problem, which is currently of global concern”.
Not all plastics are easily recyclable PVC, Polystyrene (which include plastic toys) and the category “other” (which include nylon fabric, compact disks, storage containers and water cooler bottles) are not. Throughout the world most plastic items don’t get recycled, many of them end up in our oceans and at times in unusual ways, which Barker shows in her ink cartridge piece below. The cartridges fell off a ship 5 years ago and are now washing up on shore all along the European coast. Another example is her piece (Cancer) that follows the plastic trash from the 2012 Tsunami that hit Japan and is floating towards Hawaii. These larger plastics items through time become microplastics and are now being found in microscopic ocean animals, shellfish and fish. Which are also seen below taken out of a turtle’ stomach( Aquarius) and a bird’s nest(Aries).
Plastic is important and useful for medical and industrial use, and globally we are getting better at recycling plastics. But a better way of reducing plastics now is to stop using them in our everyday life. Use cloth bags for everything, ask restaurants or grocery markets you visit not to use Styrofoam, and try to buy clothes that are made of 100% natural fibers. Even doing just one of these things will help lower your plastic consumption and disposal. Just think of it this way – That plastic you don’t buy- you literally won’t be ingesting it in your food source later.
P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.
Aries
Ace of Cups – The Ace of Cups calls for you to create and spread love and joy. This card reminds you that positive emotions need to be your “go to” this week even if someone pokes you to get a rise. Your mottos: You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and Love conquers all.
Taurus
Two of Cups – This week relationships are in the forefront with the Two of Cups. Take time to put energy in and share intimacies with your closest relationships. Your cup becomes fuller the more you fill other’s cups.
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Happy Birthday Pisces!
Two of Cups – The Two of Cups foretells that love is in the air. This week your focus should be on intimacy in the relationships you hold dear or creating new ones. Time for candlelight diners and walks on the beach. The challenge is knowing your truth and sharing it.
Her art represents the complexity of urban life. The chaotic nature of sight, sound, and smell overlaying the inert backdrop of urban space: buildings, electric lines, and sidewalks. Observe her art in layers as you would walking in a city and adding your senses one at a time. First just with your sight taking in the backdrop of the stillness of architecture. Next with ears and eyes closed smell, that is the layer of misty color wafting in the mid-ground. Now, just close your eyes and listen, that communication becomes the added black lines, swirling and connecting. Finally, when you take it all in, like her art, you see the layers of life and you begin to appreciate the chaos and beauty of its interactions.
Six of Wands – Six of Wands is the card of winning a battle, solving a conundrum or a positive outcome of a task. The challenge with this card is to soak in that victory for the war or project still has some thing to finalize. But use this week as a respite in the race.
Six of Pentacles – The Six of Pentacles is the baby karma card. What you give out, you will receive threefold back – good or bad. This is a week where little acts of kindness or do-goodness paves the way to the pot of gold.
Four of Pentacles – The Four of Pentacles brings a week where you do not have enough cash, time and/or space. This can make you hold these things even closer and causing you to feel resentful, frazzled or ungenerous. The challenge for this card is to learn that less can be more.
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King of Cups – Last week the Death card had you clear some space, weed out the plants/projects/ideas that you do not want to grow this year. And then prep the soil/mind-space/physical-space where the budding will happen. The first seeds to plant and or tend are the ones in the emotional realm this week. Whether this deals with work or personally, your heart wants to be part of it. Your motto – is if it doesn’t make you feel than you ain’t doing it right.
King of Pentacles – Last week the Knight of Pentacles wanted you to work on your environment, your work that brings in money, your health and/or any physical project that creates a physical item. The King of Pentacles continues this momentum. However, he wants to see at the very least some aspect of a the product finished, so finish a project or move it to a place where you can see the end, or double down on your fitness regime. Your motto – Do it.
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