Relics

Relics is a photographic exploration of single-use plastics, reimagined through an abstract lens. In this series, everyday disposable items ~ often overlooked or discarded without thought ~ are transformed into striking compositions that reveal unexpected textures, vibrant colors, and sculptural forms. Using motion and selective depth of field, I use the plastics themselves — their colors, shapes, and surfaces — as the medium. It’s an attempt to blur the line between beauty and waste, and to create visuals that are both alluring and unsettling.

Plastics now touch the lives, and bodies, of nearly every living creature on the planet. From microscopic organisms to apex predators, from ocean depths to human bloodstreams, the reach of these materials is inescapable. Relics confronts this reality by drawing attention to the seductive design of the objects themselves ~ bright, accessible, and manufactured for convenience ~ and asks what it means for beauty to be born of harm.

Through this transformation, Relics challenges us to reconsider our relationship with the disposable. What if these objects were seen not as conveniences, but as cultural artifacts? As remnants of an era defined by excess? In reframing the throwaway as a relic, this work becomes both a warning and a meditation — a record of what we create, what we consume, and what we leave behind for every living being to inherit.