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Perched on Plastic
Margaret Lowies
“Perched on Plastic” is a sculptural a bird, perched arrogantly on a birds have died from starvation
work Margaret created from piece of driftwood that is covered because their stomachs are filled
driftwood and debris collected with plastic excrement. At a literal and blocked by small pieces of
along the Port Elizabeth coastline. level, the work brings sharply to plastic debris (from bottle tops to
Represented in full on page 41, the mind the devastating photographs cigarette lighters), that are mistaken
work depicts the skeletal remains of of seabird carcasses, where the for morsels of food. This is a
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