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Plastic Goes Concrete: "Plasticnic" and "Plasticpoems", Two Animated Poetry Videos about Plastic Pollution
Summary
This creative writing and environmental humanities article describes the production of two short animated poetry videos about plastic pollution, one humorous and narrative and one text-based, both adapting concrete visual poems into digital animated form. The author discusses the creative process and communicative intent. This is an environmental art and science communication article rather than a scientific study.
The author describes the creation of two short animated video poems about plastic pollution that originated in concrete/visual poems. "Plasticnic" is a humorous and colourful narrated video based on a shaped poem depicting how we enjoy nature while simultaneously harming it through plastic consumption. "Plasticpoems" is a text-based, unnarrated animated video poem about plastic pollution based on two shaped/visual/concrete poems.