Upcoming DeadlineA crisis does not always arrive with a warning. Sometimes, it is already moving.
Upcoming Deadline takes the form of a kinetic tornado—a vortex made entirely from discarded plastic gathered from the island of Novigrad and its surroundings. Bags, bottles, flip-flops, food packaging and fragments of everyday consumption are suspended, entangled and set into motion. As the structure turns, what was once scattered waste becomes a turbulent force: fragile, unstable and threatening.
The tornado becomes a metaphor for the accelerating crisis of climate change and plastic pollution. Its continuous movement suggests a situation already in motion—one that grows, gathers force and becomes increasingly difficult to stop. The title Upcoming Deadline evokes the pressure of time: the narrowing space between what we know and what we choose to do.
Yet the work is not made from an abstract idea of pollution. Every fragment comes from a specific place. Collected from the local environment, the discarded objects carry traces of everyday habits, consumption and human presence. Through their transformation into a moving vortex, the familiar becomes unsettling; ordinary objects become evidence of a crisis that is both global and deeply local.
Upcoming Deadline takes the form of a kinetic tornado—a vortex made entirely from discarded plastic gathered from the island of Novigrad and its surroundings. Bags, bottles, flip-flops, food packaging and fragments of everyday consumption are suspended, entangled and set into motion. As the structure turns, what was once scattered waste becomes a turbulent force: fragile, unstable and threatening.
The tornado becomes a metaphor for the accelerating crisis of climate change and plastic pollution. Its continuous movement suggests a situation already in motion—one that grows, gathers force and becomes increasingly difficult to stop. The title Upcoming Deadline evokes the pressure of time: the narrowing space between what we know and what we choose to do.
Yet the work is not made from an abstract idea of pollution. Every fragment comes from a specific place. Collected from the local environment, the discarded objects carry traces of everyday habits, consumption and human presence. Through their transformation into a moving vortex, the familiar becomes unsettling; ordinary objects become evidence of a crisis that is both global and deeply local.
