How I ended up in Everest building a monument against trash
In 2018, I received an email from Sagarmatha Next, an NGO in Nepal. They wanted to know if I might be interested in collaborating with them to use art to tackle the waste problem in the Everest region
This phoenix is made from the average human’s carbon footprint (every year)
Normally when I think about climate change – I feel an overwhelming sense of despair. Earth Overshoot Day – the day we spend our carbon budget for the year – gets closer every single year. But last y
A Cardboard Giant Plastic Tap – free for Students!
Ever since I built a four-story tall Giant Plastic Tap, spewing plastics all over the UN headquarters of the United Nations when the Global Plastics Treaty was signed, I’ve received hundreds of reques
Unveiling the E-Waste Generator – An immersive experience demanding the Right to Repair
Did you know that 800 laptops worth of Electronic Waste are thrown away every second? The #1 reason: Exorbitant repair costs that keep people buying new. For decades, big tech companies have been figh
A Truckload of Fashion Greenwashing
Did you know that a truckload of clothing is burned or landfilled every second? Over the last few years, the rise of fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara has been rapidly overtaken by ultra-fast fash
I Set My Art Installation on Fire: Stopping the Perpetual Plastic Machine
Meet the Perpetual Plastic Machine – a colossal 15-foot-tall art installation I created in collaboration with Greenpeace. This isn’t your typical art piece that you’d find in a museum. It’s a giant, w
I built an 11-foot skull covered in E-Waste to expose Bitcoin’s Impact on Climate Change
Everything we do online takes energy. A single google search? That takes 1080 Joules of energy*. Streaming an hour of Netflix? 288,000 Joules*. One Bitcoin transaction? A mindboggling 6,995,000,000 Jo
10 foot tall Extinction Thermometer highlighting the connection between climate change and biodiversity loss.
During the cold war, the doomsday clock was a symbol and metaphor that was used to describe how close we were to mutually assured destruction. It served as a powerful and persistent reminder of how fr
Explaining Climate Equity with Paper and Charcoal
A couple months ago, my good friend and data scientist Eric Berlow challenged me to explain the concept of “Climate Equity” through art. After throwing many different ideas around, we finally settled
This three story tall giant art installation is leaking plastics into different environments
Single-use plastic consumption has gone up by 250-300% during the pandemic. And with the United Nations Environmental Assembly coming together in February 2022 to discuss a global plastic treaty, we n
Impossible Maternity Photos with Fruits & Vegetables
After noticing that Corn looked like Skyscrapers, my mom asked if I could help her create a series of tiny world portraits of my 8-month old pregnant sister and her husband. My sister is a pretty adve
This cosmic cave is an Instagram trap made from 18,000 used plastic cups
Every single day, millions of plastic takeaway cups are used in food centers across the world. Receiving a takeaway cup, even when dining in – has become so commonplace that we don’t even think twice
“The Parting of the Plastic Sea” an installation made from 168,000 used plastic straws
It’s just one straw, said 8 billion people. Sounds like a cliche little quote – but these little things really do add up. Straws are virtually impossible to recycle in most places around the world bec
My Friend And I Built The World’s Tallest Closet
My friend Laura is a social impact designer who has an unconventional passion for clothing. She realized long ago that we buy far more clothes than we need, simply because we can. Since then, she’s be
Every 60 Seconds, This Much Plastic Enters The Ocean.
Why throw plastics into the ocean? I can’t speak for others but in our case, we decided to throw an entire truckload of plastic into the ocean after we learned about this shocking statistic: ” Every 6
Where are your clothes born?
10 years ago, this was a clothing factory that employed almost 5000 workers Once called the Tak Fat garment factory – it is now being renovated and converted into a creative coworking space in Cambodi
4100lbs of E-Waste resurrected. Trillions to go.
Every single day, 142,000 computers are thrown away in the United States At least, that was the case in 2010. Electronic waste is the fastest growing municipal waste stream in the world. Today, that n
Did you know your laundry is toxic? These laundry monsters represent reality
We have a big problem. Our tap water is being contaminated every single day. The laundry that we do every single day is the cause! 94% of American tap water contains invisible plastic fibers. Tiny pla