Artwork: Installation by Luzinterruptus, *The plastic we live with,* Suzhou Grand Canal, China, 2022

Figuring out what’s fake or real these days is challenging. Having done my own research (hint—follow the money and people/corporations behind news, agendas and causes that will profit or gain something from their support) a “real” environmental problem is plastic pollution.

The most recent public intervention in China by the anonymous artistic group from Spain, Luzinterruptus, highlights this issue (I also wrote another post on a similar theme regarding their work, Plastic Waste Labyrinth). The installation is called The plastic we live with, and was created for the I Paint Suzhou Festival in China. The signature features of the installation include their use of raw materials—plastic bags—and light, which literally sheds light on the issue of the prevalence of plastic waste that we live with today. And it raises the question: What are we going to do about it?