Plastic Particles In
My Testicles
Des particules de plastique dans mes testicules Plastic deeltjes in mijn testikels
Artist’s book/photobook/zine, 2025
Plastic particles in my testicles is a book addressing microplastics pollution in human bodies illustrated by plastic-rich analogue positive film photography, featuring a poem/spoken word piece on the cover.
If photographs are made with plastics and plastics break down into microplastics which enter human bodies, how much photography is inside of us?
Working with expired Fuji 100 positive film and a plastic-body Polaroid 420 camera, I photographed skies and cloud formations, also puncturing prints and reclaiming negatives.
Self-portraits were photographed using expired Polaroid 600 film and were inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s drawing ‘Sorrow’. These photographs and four wet plate collodion self-portraits, ‘Becoming Plastic’, communicate my horror at my body becoming increasingly polluted with plastic, also linking the 1862 invention of plastic by Alexander Parkes to the 1851 invention of the wet plate collodion process by Scott Archer, both highly polluting and toxic.
Microplastics pollution knows no borders. The title appears in three languages: English, French and Dutch – Plastic particles in my testicles Des particules de plastique dans mes testicules Plastic deeltjes in mijn testikels.
As with most of my previous work, Plastic particles in my testicles explores the potential of the dynamic relationship between image and text.
Size 21cm x 29.7cm, 36pp, stapled. Pages 170gsm, cover 300gsm - both glossy paper. Published by Negative Press London. Publication date 7 May 2025. Printed in England
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