“ This is How “They” felt ”

This is how THEY felt, 2019

The Portraits are printed on a thick polyethylene sheet and covered with a relatively thinner version of the same.

The portraits are influenced by Franklyn Rodgers’s ‘Underexposed Portraits’, as the artist was a student of Franklyn at the London Southbank University.

About 14 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, 40% of which is single-use plastic. Some scientists estimate that there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in oceans worldwide. Out of which most of the plastic ends up forming giant garbage patches in the ocean. At least 1400 marine species are affected by this non-biodegradable matter, which is a great reason for apprehension.

- National Geographic

The Series consists of 4 stages of suffocation, struggle, collapse, Paralysis, and death.

Stage I

Struggle – The subject starts to panic and begins to find their way out of the plastic bag. Having the motive to escape the situation.

Stage II

Collapse – The subject starts to lose its energy and starts to give up, as it cannot breathe, its energy drains quickly.

Stage III

Paralysis – The subject has lost control all over its body because the oxygen can’t reach the brain any longer, thus leading to body paralysis.

Final Stage

Death – The subject has drowned and died.

The artist has tried to put himself as a HUMAN and the model as a FISH. Where he is suffocating the Human to show Humans how suffocation feels like.

It's not about the artist's name or the skill required, not even about the art itself.

All that matters is "How does it make you feel?"