“Sparce, yet richly filled with environmental and emotional meaning, are Nick Sinclair’s still life studies of plastic bottles after long immersion in the sea. Sinclair made a complicated ethical knot out of his little shards of plastic. His bottles used to contain water and now they look entirely watery themselves. But the water they held was a luxury, not a staple. The plastic was good packaging (light, strong, cheap, safe, clean) but it lasts too long. We need these bottles and we don’t need these bottles. No simple scale of good and bad here.”
Francis Hodgson, director Prix Pictet