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EVOLUTION FROM EXCESS

RT NOW FUSES with science and imagination to illustrate plastics’ reach across boundaries, across scales of size and time and species. During my research for this story, I was introduced to the work of Pinar Yoldas, a Turkish artist with, Pinar brings together media arts and neuroscience to ask a single question: “If life started today in our plastic debris–filled oceans, what kinds of life-forms would emerge out of this contemporary primordial ooze?”

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