These objects were never meant to be found again — and yet, here they are.
Project: Fragments of Us
Type: Visual Anthropology
Year: 2024 - Present
Project: Fragments of Us
Type: Visual Anthropology
Year: 2024 - Present
This series documents plastic debris collected from beaches: bottle caps, fishing gear, toys, and fragments smoothed by the tide. Each piece, once mundane, now stands as a relic of our material age.
Inspired by archaeological methods, the work treats these discarded items as future artifacts. Just as ancient refuse tells us about past societies, today’s plastics reveal our own — a civilisation defined by convenience, permanence, and denial.
Photographed with precision and care, the objects are presented not as waste, but as evidence. They have travelled through time and water, reshaped by waves and weather. Their colour may fade — their presence does not.
Plastic endures. And so do the questions it raises.
What stories will these fragments tell about us, when we’re gone? What do we choose to value, and what do we choose to leave behind?
Fragments of Us invites the viewer to reconsider what we value, what we discard, and what remains when we’re gone.
Inspired by archaeological methods, the work treats these discarded items as future artifacts. Just as ancient refuse tells us about past societies, today’s plastics reveal our own — a civilisation defined by convenience, permanence, and denial.
Photographed with precision and care, the objects are presented not as waste, but as evidence. They have travelled through time and water, reshaped by waves and weather. Their colour may fade — their presence does not.
Plastic endures. And so do the questions it raises.
What stories will these fragments tell about us, when we’re gone? What do we choose to value, and what do we choose to leave behind?
Fragments of Us invites the viewer to reconsider what we value, what we discard, and what remains when we’re gone.
Let’s be the change