Plastic Poetry 004
Lotus House
Thrift Chic Boutique
On October 27, 2021, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their fourth in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that blends recycling plastics, plastic pollution, beach cleanups, public art, and poetry.
The text is an excerpt from a poem written by a Lotus House Guest in August 2021 as part of an O, Miami-led workshop series on gratitude and the ode form. The five-inch letters are rendered in 4.46lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from two beach cleanups held at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on April 22, 2021 and at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center on June 26, 2021, as well as a collection of community plastics including hundreds of black post-consumer restaurant to-go containers, ramekins, straws, forks, spoons, and knives.
Lotus House’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
Poetry Workshops: August 5-26, 2021
Workshop Participants: 16
Community Cleanup: April 22, 2021
Plastic Reclaimed: 15.69 lbs
Plastic Recycled: 4.46 lbs
Untitled
YOUR LAUGH BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE EVERY TIME THAT GOOFY CHUCKLE GRACES MY EARS. YOUR EYES HOLD ME CAPTIVE LIKE A SEA OF CHOCOLATE, AND I’M THE KID FROM WILLIE WONKA. IF WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER WAS A PERSON, THERE’D BE A PICTURE OF YOU. BEEN LIVING FOR YOURSELF ALL YOUR LIFE. YOU SHOWED THAT THERE IS LOVE IN THE WORLD. THAT I WAS CAPABLE AND WORTHY OF CONSISTENCY. FOR THAT, I WILL ALWAYS SAVE A SPACE FOR YOU.
Plastic Poetry 004 is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic in partnership with Lotus House Women’s Shelter and is made possible with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation | Crearte;
the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at O, Miami.
