God Save The Queen!

Perfomance by Andréa Barreiro London, May 2018 This work was carried out in early 2018 shortly after Her Majesty the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, affected by Sir David Attenborough's documentary - Climate Change - the facts, and decided to sign a statement from Buckingham Palace committing himself to " banish the straws and plastic bottles from the royal properties. " This subject, which had already been the subject of regular speeches of Prince Charles, won the royal seal.   In England 7.7 billion plastic bottles are used only once a year. Today there are more than 300 million tons of plastic produced worldwide, 10% of this total will stop directly in the oceans, impacting marine life and directly and indirectly human life. And there is already research that points out that the consumption of food from the oceans makes us ingest something around 50 thousand pieces of microplastic each year. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/05/people-eat-at-least-50000-plastic-particles-a-year-study-finds Faced with the real attitude, which was widely publicized in the English media and were news in the rest of the world, the author created the image titled God Save the Queen! In the creation process, the author stored all the disposable plastic garbage she used for a week and created an image inspired by the photograph of Queen Elizabeth II by Chris Levine - Lightness of Being - which is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London . This work was carried out to draw attention to the excessive use of plastic packaging in our society while at the same time criticizes the passive attitude of the consumer. Very little is done to effectively change this situation. And we must understand that the solution can not be summarized the extinction of straws and bottles. Accountability and reformulation of process and packaging methodologies for the consumption of large economic conglomerates is necessary because, in the first instance, they are responsible for the vast majority of products on display.