Ocean Claw
Save the last fish from the ocean
Installation for Exhibition
Porto Design Biennale 2019 call for entries was “Post-Millennium Tension”, so I picked an object from my millennial childhood, the “Claw machine”, as a metaphor about one of the world's major concerns: the pollution of the oceans.
When I was a kid, me and kids my age were fascinated by the prizes inside these machines, and there was always one with more value to us than the others. The one you spent more time trying to grab, ignoring all the rest.
Inside this catchy box, full of lights and with an annoying music playing, the system is the same. Lots of colorful objects, but only a few you really wished for. The color and the mundane objects were representation of bottles and plastic objects, but the real prize, the one you wish to get, are the fish and other sea creatures.
Our fascination for the ocean is deep and real, but there is so much trash around that it is easy to look away forget about it and its life, ignoring the damage we are making.
Installation handmade in Oupas! Design