Alain Delorme: MURMURATIONS - Ephemeral Plastic Sculptures
I’m captivated by Alain Delorme’s digital work, which examines the beauty of the everyday by lulling the viewer into a false sense of romanticism. At first glance, the sky appears full of birds — graceful, harmonious — but on closer inspection, it’s teeming with plastic bags, choking the horizon as they choke our rivers and seas.
Delorme has painstakingly placed thousands of bag images to construct a composition that echoes land art — objects arranged in landscape to reflect on the dual power and fragility of nature. The result is both mesmerising and doom-laden, an image that seduces before it condemns. It leaves me asking the same question his work implies but does not answer: what will we do about this universal threat — the plastic bag?
