Synthetic - Object Writing exrecise 23 Dec
admin December 22nd, 2007
Long thin strands of plastic stretch out, the synthetic product of the black gold, the legacy of DuPont. Nylon, garbage bags, see through containers, windows into world of junk. Packaging; hard, soft, flimsy, rigid. It comes in all shapes and sizes and it’s all synthetic.
When you get something new from the local office depot it’s usually blanketed in a protective swathe of plastic. There is no way in the world that you can open the packet unaided. The other day I bought a mini 2 Gigabyte USB drive. The packaging monstered the thing by at least 10 times. At home fingernails skirted along barbed plastic edges of the packaging seeking a way into the colourful display under the surface, but the way was barred. Teeth sank into the solid shell, the armour that was protecting the device, teeth slid off the neutral plastic tasting, new smelling diamond surface, so normally synthetic.
The kitchen draw contains scissors. It rumbles out of its niche on tired wheels, hands skirt over various implements in search of the scissors, smooth, rough , jagged angular shapes move aside and the scissors are found. They are a glove, a shadow, an appendage at the end of the arm as they cut a gouge of destruction through the resistant plastic, but, it’s enough. The lid separates and fingers slide between the constrictive jaws of the packaging, snapping, still not wanting to relent, but the dogs quiet long enough for the memory stick to be extracted. Another piece of electronic wizardry cleverly bundled in a synthetic overcoat.
The thing is, all these synthectic products, packaging etc are doomed. Unless we find an alternative to the black stuff underground. The world will change for-ever. It’s all so taken for granted, that tomorrow there WILL be another shopping bag, there WILL be another car tyre manufactured in some stinking factory in China, There WILL be more product , always available.
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