Out of our world, Jaden Fraser, 2020
I like to take portraits of people and I’m inspired by political movements, but this project made me look at the art I create in a different way.
I began to think about climate change and how trash and garbage are slowly changing everything for the worse. I thought about animals that live in the water and wondered, what does it look like in their world?
I think back to when I was snorkeling in Costa Rica and Hawaii, and saw a lot of things that I didn’t expect. I went back to those memories to form an idea of what aquatic life might see, and to bring attention to what we miss from our perspective on land.
One small bottle or plastic bag may seem harmless to a human but to a bird or a fish it can be the difference between life and death. Just because we can’t see it, doesn't mean it doesn’t exist.