Untitled, Saima Romito-Kalluk, 2020
Initially, I was thinking, what’s the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear, “It’s a Plastic World”? And what came to mind was Barbie—especially the song lyric, “life’s fantastic when you’re made of plastic.” I like how calm Barbie looks, it is kind of eerie. In my image, the Barbie doll is pretending everything is okay, pretending climate change doesn’t exist, and she’s choosing to ignore it. However, everything is not okay. I chose to do a mixture of cartoonish and real imagery. This echoes how we pretend climate change isn’t a problem and how some of us don’t believe our planet is in trouble.