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F. Emmanuel Bastien

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Sorry I Trashed It.

The title Is a reference to the planet and my generation passing on a world covered is trash from every corner of the surface of the earth to the depths of the ocean.
Somehow the Ocean seems to be a favorite dumping ground for our trash.

Most of what we manufacture, purchase, use and consume is made to be perishable and eventually obsolete but at the bottom of the ocean these objects take on a new life of slow decay eventually becoming part of the underwater seascape.
I have no solution and living on a boat for the better part of the last 10 years between New York and the Caribbean I am guilty of having dropped a few phones, among other things, in water too deep or too murky to retrieve them.
However, sitting in my cockpit sipping a cold beer packaged in a shiny aluminum can at sunset, it seemed urgent to document where that can might end up.
The choice of black and white for this project seemed obvious as it reflects the permanence of the last resting place of these objects.

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