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Net'Léman, the lake's big party
Rethinking our relationship with waste
Waste is the result of an act of abandonment that reduces an object to the state of discarded material, having lost its use and emotional values. It's important to rethink waste and not just repress it without questioning its representations.
As a representative of the Maori people said at COP21 in Paris, our pollution is related to us, in the case of plastics it comes from oil, an ancient form of life on earth; we have the same roots. Transforming our relationship with pollution and admitting our link with all the matter that makes up our waste is an important step towards recognising our kinship with everything that exists, and then establishing a relationship of benevolence and respect with nature.
This moss using a lost ball found on the shores of Lake Geneva as a life support illustrates this link with the transformed matter emanating from the bowels of the Earth. It is essential to remove waste from the lake, but it is important that these fine actions are accompanied by a collective introspection to reconcile ourselves with the Earth.
Emilie Crittin
Photographer and artivist, guest columnist
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