Experiment
Fossilised Plastic
![FIGURE 23 Photograph of plastic sample being 3D scanned.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a90c229658bc4da6ea3c5caeeeff205bd3f8b97dc324692e4c266d8202d7ecfa/figure23_scanningbed.jpg)
![FIGURE 24 Sketch plan for creating plastic ‘fossil’.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ea1e0f6ff028541e954724b2ce55a81c8b6725ab4c1dc6b38994a29d9fbca2b/figure24_fossilsketch.jpg)
Aim
To create a fossil artefact that would facilitate conversation about the future state of plastic in the world and our deep time footprints.
Precedents
Ideas from Jazvac’s Plastiglomerate (2013) that plastic is a part of our geological record are built on in this experiment to consider the geological imprints these plastics will leave in our world.
Methods
![FIGURE 25 Digital output of 3D scans.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc566635d175d6e4a37f8d3baa352e23c5d171c36efd616e35fed75ec82c544c/figure25_3dmodel.jpg)
Reflection
While this experiment did consider more creative methods of communication, I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the idea of creating more objects to critique the waste of our existing ones. As such, this experiment was deemed an exercise for thinking through more material ways of communicating and eventually abandoned.
Insights
Although dissatisfied with these means of making, this lens of deep, geological, future time—and framing the plastic through these stories—was intriguing. These were concepts that I wanted to unpack and explore further.