Secand Locastion

Tourism

In recent years, tourism has provided a boost to the local economy. Swansea Bay itself was popular in Victorian times and in the early part of the 20th century. However, despite having dunes and golden sands over a large section of the Bay all the way from the mouth of the River Neath to Blackpill, with the exception of the Swansea Docks breakwater, it now rarely hosts more than a few hundred visitors on even the best day, even in the height of summer and has seen little of the tourist boom. Ironically in the last ten years or so, with the reduction in pollution has come an increase in the amount of sand on the lower stretches of the Bay at low tide, which were once almost pure mud flats.

With a small information that I gathered on Swansea beach the most striking thing that stud out the most was the amount of trash that built up from what the Ocean brings in. As the beach is an open public area I thought it would be a good place to show the site-specific. Inspiration came from examples that I found on the Internet about site Pacific Art. I wondered what I could do with these materials that i would find that would of been washed upon the beach and how I could transform the waste.

With that I thought that I could possibly collected bags of trash that would floated in, which I then turn into site-specific sculptures. intended as something new that speaks to our time and its vast quantity of discarded materials.

Working in response to the landscape and within a highly defined color palette. While inspired by the images i found  by Alejandro Durán.

 

Image found online artist unknow.

Both images above are photos that I found online of Swansea beach, these areas very similar to where it could be possible to create site-specific sculptures, using the waste on the beach and the landscape to creat this idea. I think it could be a great way to make people aware of the repercussions of littering and also the environmental State of the world.