The way I design is to find some inspiration from my daily life. I like the ocean, but i am afraid of water. To over come this fear, I conducted a case study in placing myself in a sensory deprivation tank where I had no sense of gravity, sound or touch. However, a stream of images were running across my mind where I imagined myself as the ocean made up of all sorts of pollutants. I was extremely terrified, I understood the ocean as a living organism that was about to die. The reaction from this experience made me pro-actively collect waste over the course of one week. With the discarded materials i made my own ocean tank using the wastes from my daily life as well as the objects i gleaned from coney island. This little ocean tank is a tiny marine environment of my own simulation. This made me discover the form and to visualize the waste subjectively. Color, feelings and fashion language, there are my ways to bring attention to the current state of ocean ecology.
