My ongoing musings on our entanglement with plastic pollution and its interconnectedness with the sustainability of our environment both here in Scotland and globally was greatly aided by visitng the most recent An Talla Solais exhibition Murmur an exhibition of 5 women artists reflecting on Climate Change .
Both the exhibition and a gallery talk by John McIntyre (scientist) illustrated the linkage between our actions and changes in world ecology. John used this diagram called a ‘Muir Web‘ drawn by Landscape ecologist Chris Harrison as a visualization of habitat relationships and ecological associations of the Manhattan island, circa 1609.
John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.”
Our inter-connectedness and responsibility to the environment, our species and each other was further wonderfully delivered that evening in a film of the American philosopher/artist Donna Haraway entitled ‘Story Telling for Earthly Survival’ by film-maker Fabrizio Terranova. Donna animatedly tells anecdotes of her dogs prowess at complex agility courses, adding another layer to her own visual analogy of our ecological and social mesh being as a ‘Cats Cradle’
As I begin to select elements of the NEO Terra exhibition to take to Holyrood in December to share with MSP’s and Ministers I am convinced of the importance of taking the #LitterCUBES particularly this one made from strapping to help with imagining the depth and complexity of the issue that we are all enmeshed in.
My intention is to engage as many people as possible in the seeing of the ecological web/mesh we hold in our hands. To do this I am working up an idea to tour the #LitterCUBES ( in much bigger forms) to harbours and festivals around the coast.
Please leave any suggestions below of possible locations, where you can see this working and ways to help raise funding to make this happen . Thank you
This great comment about the exhibition animation Terra Nova convinced me that the animation should go live here and on vimeo. The film tells one part of my investigative journey with plastic pollution – how the burning of litter on beaches forms rock-like lumps of plastic, now named ‘Plastiglomerate’ .
If you would like to download an Isle of CHANGE chart in celebration of World Oceans Day 2017 please click 
World Oceans Day is a designated UN day to celebrate & honour the world’s oceans.
In return voters will receive a copy of the ‘Isle of CHANGE’ map from the NEO Terra exhibition presently showing at An Talla Solais until the 18th June 
Now back on the beaches of Wester Ross feeling the strong winds and immersed in tidal charts and large-scale OS maps on which I am plotting the remaining 32 beach locations to collect sand & plastiglomerate samples from, needed to construct the NEO Terra exhibition. Opening at 
Entanglement: an artist’s strandline journey with Polymers, Wracks and Laminaria
They are often highly colourful just like the plastic objects they once were , but most fade to look deceptively like the rocks and pebbles around them . They can take a lot of looking for, a give away sign is that they are much lighter than similar size stones and relatively warm to touch. 
Rhue Beach – todays collection location
Please add your own ideas into the comments box below of ‘how we can stop plastic leaking into the environment and improve environmental sustainability’ I will add them to the isle of HOPE. My own HOPE is based on the support and feedback I have received to the Littoral Art Projects 2016 ‘s achievements recorded below :
Exhibition: NEO Terra, Shetland Museum Oct-Nov
Animation: Terra NOVA, Shetland Museum Oct-Nov
Education Workshops: across Shetland May-June
Presentation: Edinburgh Humanities Network – Deep Time April
Expedition: to 
Residency: at An Talla Solais developing animation storyboard
Awarded 
littoral: sci-art project 