I'd been working with plastic bags, which I cut up and sew back together as my primary material for my artwork for the last 20 years. I turn them into two and three-dimensional pieces and sculptures and installations. After about the first eight years, some of my work started to fissure and break down into smaller little bits of plastic. It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic. And a lot of it is in the marine environment. I learned about the Pacific garbage patch. I wanted to go out there, pick up the plastic, and cold mold it into bricks to be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities. But soon I realized that I needed to look at the bigger picture first: we need to attack the source of this waste that is entering the marine environment every day on a global scale. Rather marine environment every day on a global scale. Rather than the marine plastic pile what I should focus on, is the pile of plastic in the supermarket. I'd go to the supermarket and all of my food is packaged in plastic. I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic into us and into our bodies.