placentas, plastic pollution & place

Abstract

The recent discovery of microplastics in placentas opens up a critical line of inquiry for art educators to consider ongoing processes of environmental pollution and our complex, entangled, and interdependent human-land relations. In this co-study with my daughter, we engage in making open-source water trawls (a.k.a "baby legs") to learn with the waters near our home located on the unceded and traditional territories of the Quw'ustun Peoples in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.