See – Think – Wonder
- What did you see that didn’t make sense?
- What do you think is the message about these people?
- Wonder how this might relate to students or young people?
Answer the questions below based on your viewing of the video.
Use your answers to decide if this video is fair or biased and what you believe about whether bullfighting is sport or animal cruelty.
Gyre, 2009
8×11 feet, in three vertical panels
Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.
What is the subject of this artwork?
What is really the subject?
Explore details from the work. What do you find most effective artistically?
Do you understand the meaning of gyre? Did you know about the spread of plastic in the oceans?