UH OH

polypropylene what?

So reading up on plastic bags bore me. Apparently after half an hour of reading up on the chemical breakdown of plastic bags, I only like to look at bags but not read about them. This might change over time but first impressions are lasting impressions ...

I'm probably going to take the abstract approach, or make a satire on plastic bags. I like the idea of thinking of plastic bags as birds but I don't like the restriction of sticking to a birdwatcher's field guide aesthetic. 

BAGS VS BIRDS

To begin my research I found a few delightfully quaint bird watching books!

Family tree of birds – soon I'll have a similar diagram for my bag findings.

In one of these books there were explanations of specific bird calls, I'd like to see if I can conjure up a similar concept with bag/wind sounds.

Birds are all over the city, they can be very small or very large, some are colourful and if they aren't on the streets for a streetside nibble, they are usually in trees.

Aside from the streetside nibble, bags are pretty much the same.

The one big difference is that there's no recognition of these bags as anything beyond refuse. However if we are creating all of these bags we may pay greater attention to the consumption and waste of them if we treated them as creatures as opposed to objects.

I personally like the look of bags but always try to avoid using them – my book could go in two directions at this point, an appreciation of bags or an extermination guide, either way I'd like to use the book to draw up comparisons to bags and living, breathing creatures.

BOOK OUTLINE

I'll start taking more pictures once the leaves start to fall again but this year I will be more methodical about it and create 'bag routes' and start recording what makes a good bag watching environment. Along with a guide for watching bags, I'd like to include some tips for prime bag observance.