Petroleum to Platinum

  • Sabrina Shah Hakim
Do we know where our PET plastic drinking bottles go once we’ve discarded them? And do we really understand the impact not recycling is doing to our environment?
PET plastic drinking bottle is the central material for my practice. Studying the capability of recyclability, which parallels greatly with second life. I wanted to explore this plastic material and its possibilities, to show its ability to innovate and surprise. My practice is aimed at answering the questions above. Exploring the need to recycle, to re-use existing materials and to care for our depleting natural resources. Body jewellery was an exemplary choice because of its rigid nature and 3D form. The challenge became to creating something alluring from something so mundane. My collection, ‘Petroleum to Platinum’ is like an alchemic journey through life and finding (new) life again; which is what I believe recyclability to be.