Yesterday, my seven year old daughter solemnly asked me if it’s true that we only have twelve years left to turn around the future of our planet. We live just five minutes away from the ocean in England’s most politically green city, and while hugely admirable: it’s a drastic state of affairs for our neighborhood kids to be on a mission to clear up littered beach plastic. The same goes for the surge in children wishing to participate in Climate Change and Extinction Rebellion marches around the globe.
With this very much in mind, it is an honor for Street Art United States to share this powerful new work from French duo Murmure Street (formed of Paul Ressencourt and Simon Roche). Murmure Street aims to raise awareness of the fragile animals that are among the first victims of human waste through their “Garb(age)” series.
“Garb(age) Bird” is a follow up to their “Garb(age) Whale” mural created for the V-ROX EXPO Festival in Vladivostok, Russia. This new work, however, was made with a much finer approach and hyper-real rendering. This huge scale mural in Rotterdam represents a zoomorphic trash bird that serves as a reminder to all the recent studies pointing out that by 2050, 99% of all marine birds will have ingested plastic. With this artwork, Murmure Street again urge us to act on the ecological emergency.
Since their festival creations for Pow! Wow! and Nuart, the artists are focused on their forthcoming exhibition dedicated to their Garb(age) project. Stay tuned!
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