Washed Up

Alejandro Duran is a Mexico-born and New York based artist and the photographer of the Washed – Up series of photos. The artist “addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve” collecting wash up debris and trash. “He conflates the hand of man and nature, distributing the objects the way the waves would, like wind-scattered seed or roots tunneling through soil, echoing the organic forms of the surrounding landscape.” Trash art in action.