Liquid Reflections
When discarded plastic becomes art, the viewer becomes part of the solution.
We live on a water planet.
Oceans cover more than seventy percent of the Earth's surface. They regulate our climate, feed billions of people, and sustain more life than any other ecosystem on Earth. They are also, increasingly, a repository for everything we no longer want.
Liquid Reflections consists of large-scale works on mirror-effect metal panels, which were created in response to the accelerating crisis of plastic pollution in the world's oceans and waterways.
Each work transforms discarded domestic plastic waste, like the ordinary debris of everyday life, into the primary material of the artwork itself. Bottles, bags, wrappers, fibres: objects designed to be used once and forgotten are embedded in layered resin, arranged according to the Fibonacci spiral, and sealed beneath luminous waves of blue.
The spiral is not accidental. It is the mathematical sequence found in nautilus shells, in coral formations, in the curl of every wave. Here it becomes a map of accumulation symbolizing the infinite, geometric growth of what we discard.
The mirror-effect panel ensures that no viewer can remain a passive observer. Your reflection appears inside the work, surrounded by debris. You are not looking at pollution from a safe distance.
You are inside it. You are part of it.
This is the central proposition of the series: that the boundary between witness and participant does not exist. The plastic in these works came from homes like yours.
The water it pollutes sustains the air you breathe.
Liquid Reflections is an act of transformation where debris becoming beauty, waste becoming witness, the discarded becoming a vehicle for meaning. It is also a commitment: this series will continue to grow if the crisis it addresses continues to grow.
Discarded plastic waste transformed into large-scale mirror works where the viewer's own reflection swims among the debris of our seas.
— Antonella Quacchia