Midway: Message from the Gyre
On the Midway Atoll, a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, some 3,000 km from the nearest continent, the waste of our mass consumption ends up in a not-so-obvious place: in the stomachs of thousands of baby albatrosses.
The albatross chicks consume the deadly quantities of plastic because their parents believe the drifting plastic to be food. Just like the albatross, man is also no longer able to distinguish between what is nutritious and what is poisonous for the body and mind. The deaths of baby albatrosses therefore symbolise the result of contemporary culture’s unbridled consumption and growth.
