Georgina Maxwell, contemporary, performance, installations

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Performance and Installation:

Womb of Gaia: moment by moment, breath by breath

Womb of Gaia: moment by moment, breath by breath

Reflecting on the sacred nature of water...

gathering a myriad of plastic objects strewn across the sand...

Feeling the ocean's pain...

...each tide she spits out more plastics to a world that chooses to be blind...

My true all-giving, ancient mother...

no longer able to sustain the world's plastic addiction... my heart aches

Feeling a deep sense of compassion and interrelatedness...

our innocent, sentient relatives of the oceans, suffering the fate of these weapons of mass-extinction...

We originated from the sacred oceans...

We owe our lives to her...

We still fail to consider her needs...

how easily we forget what truly matters...

...I give gratitude and bathe in her fragile beauty...

...continuing to gather the hundreds of objects, honouring her powerful nature

wondering why I feel so deeply and many don't see it as I do...

...this is my puropse for living

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Passers by look, then turn away...

Old plastic scrubbing brush where the ocean has worn away the bristles...

... gathering plastics from the shoreline of Gwithian during my meditation walk culminated in an installation. 750 toxic objects in seawater were contained in 140 silver topped glass jars.

mottled, broken CD contained in Gwithian's seawater...

...organic-looking mass of plastic...

Malaria medicine bottle and single fishing line contained in Gwithian seawater

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Art Activist: Cries from the Toxic Oceans

Cries from the Toxic Oceans

...we had to move fast

Great friends I met, giving their time and helping out...

... up all night preparing the flour and water paste...waiting for the right time to pounce

Having to work fast... but need footage too...

...a black mercedes kept circling the area... I was concerned for my co-workers that we might get arrested...

...making an impact...nearly there...

It was a very warm night...

the flour and water adhesive is sticking to the walls like concrete...

...racing...adrenaline rushing through my veins

...done by 4.30am...now off to buy my friends a few drinks in a late night pub down the road.

The next morning.. woke up late...damn! jumped on the bus to find that the staff of BPF had been doing their utmost to deface the texts...

...the morning after before the Chemical Policy conference ... they were furious

like a gaping wound surrounding the British Plastics Federation HQ. London

Massive reaction from the BPF staff... they weren't happy at all!

The BPF CEO traced me... sending a false letter posing as an environmental company who was interested in the event...

... I asked for their website for proof..no reply!

...then an email from the CEO of BPF wanting details and information and a meeting...

I felt this could be dangerous...

Site-specific: Helix Hybrid