In this episode of #TheSustainabilityShow, we delve into the world of plastic waste polluting our oceans 🌊
, a trash artist from Illinois, USA, stands out by creating art from even the smallest plastic bits, turning them into meaningful pieces.
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it’s Jess.
@loveheylola
awkward artist. might be a thresher shark. gives bad advice. trash worker. murdered my breast cancer, but the ghost lingers a bit.
it’s Jess.’s Tweets
Took a break from twitter to focus on my work and…
Honest to God made huge progress in everything I do.
There’s so many people here I like, but overall this place makes ME worse as a person.
Also.
It’s weird here now.
I’m sure I’ll check back again.
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Taking a break from twitter for a bit. I feel like it brings out the worst in me and also, I’m really neglecting my work. I can be found on pretty much every other social media platform under loveheylola (in case you miss me).
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Also, shout out to my dead mother who always said I was faking when I was sick, so now I have gone through literal cancer thinking things like “I know my radiated, burnt skin is actually falling off of my body, but do I really need pain relief or do I just think I do?”
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I made these earrings with trash plastics, metal scraps, bio resin, and classified documents. Who among us isn’t hoarding classified documents?
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These are currently sold out, but those black and white beads are old wires and those colorful flowers and leaves are straws. I do regular clean-ups and turn some of the garbage I find into jewelry ❤️
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Me: posts videos of myself collecting brightly colored trash during clean-ups
Random commenter: I wish I had that much free time…
Me: Spends “free time” making wearable sculptures out of brightly colored trash that I collected during clean-ups…
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Just in - Kim Kardashian purchases these earrings that I made out of trash for 1.5 million dollars.
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Did a live interview about my work on a national television program today and learned 2 things:
1.) Your ipad camera can track your movements to keep you centered in the frame
2.) My ipad is not going to turn that function off, no matter how many times I try.
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I made these flowers out of discarded straws and I turn them into earrings. I feel like more people pay attention to me on twitter when I talk about my cancer stuff, but I don’t just want to talk about my cancer stuff.
I make pretty things from garbage, too.
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My biological family: “you’re trash and you’ll never make it as an artist”
Me: grows up to be an artist who makes a living selling trash.
I win.
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Made most of these from unrecyclable trash plastics. Straws, lids, school supplies, scrap vinyl attached to to go lids, etc.
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Made a bunch of earrings out of a broken dress someone sent me.
They’re super fancy. You could wear them to super fancy events and be the superest fanciest.
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Gonna change my twitter handle to Dr.Jess and just start spouting off utter nonsense so people retweet it as fact.
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I made an art installation about having cancer and all of the emotions that have come with it.
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I’m just a few hundred dollars away from a really big sales goal I set for my trash jewelry and art. Is it weird that I really want to hit this goal before I hit the one year anniversary of my cancer diagnosis (in 2 weeks)? Anyway. Please buy my trash. ❤️
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Hey science twitter:
I took a live photo of the sunset and saw this flash. I converted it to a video. Does anyone know what this is?
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Welcome to my series of photos where I was photographing some beautiful jelly fish and an annoying whale shark kept getting in the way.
Also did you know whale sharks don’t like jelly fish? I guess they get stung too. Maybe we need to give them stinger suits.
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I wish would stop running that sea turtle commercial. That’s an incredibly harmful way to clean a beach, especially one that hosts nesting turtles. #seaturtles
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And poor Kris Jenner would have to somehow try to monetize my trash work in a way that would make her 10% more than $4.
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…can happen on a monthly basis, which means baby sea turtles could be hatching and that crazy car clean-up just killed them all.
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After my lumpectomy, my oncologist told me I was technically in remission. Since remission:
7 weeks radiation
radical hysterectomy
8 new pills a day
Regular physical therapy
“Maybe” more cancer (more scans this week) 🤷🏻♀️
Like - tv cancer told us that remission means done.
LIES
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Wordle 214 2/6
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That feeling when you finish breast cancer radiation AND get the wordle word on the 2nd try.
ON THE SAME DAY.
I mean.
Go Little Rockstar 🤩
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*BREAKING* Shortly after divorce announcement, Jason Momoa seen holding hands with Pete Davidson outside popular LA eatery
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When people are like “I’m not wearing a mask unless I know someone around me is immunocompromised”
WHAT DOES IMMUNOCOMPROMISED LOOK LIKE?
(I have now had this conversation so many times. I promise you, if I take enough pain medication & wash my hair, you can’t tell I’m sick)
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Wordle 207 6/6
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First time. I absolutely felt like an idiot.
Thing that I’ve noticed since I was diagnosed with #cancer :
women can only show their breasts on social media if they’ve literally had their nipples cut off due to a deadly disease.