Sometimes the amount of garbage we accumulate in a week completely shocks us.  We wonder how in the world two adults could create so much waste.  We do try to be aware of our consumption and curtail it wherever we can.  The work of  French artists Hortense Le Calvez and Matthieu Goussin aka Forlane 6 Studio speaks to the human race’s over consumption and the consequences it will eventually bring.

Ordinary, mass produced objects, decorated with “seaweed” and “tentacles” are submerged.  These objects, which weigh so heavily on many of our lives and the earth in general, gloat weightlessly.

This slowness of movement contradicts the rate at which so many of these objects are consumed and disposed of.  The objects seem at once foreign and organic to the sea’s atmosphere.  Perhaps in a nod to how we fool ourselves into thinking that buying that next thing we don’t really need doesn’t make a difference.

To see more of the work of Forlane 6 Studio, please visit their website and be sure to follow their Facebook page, where they’ve recently posted photos of a new installation!