Saganowska’s work explores environmental damage, pollution and the a ftermath of convenience. A handful of collected macro fragments of deteriorated coastal plastic debris is photographed, revealing their unique qualities such as intense shape, colour and texture. The work is captured with high – definition on equipment and then enlarged to over one hundred times its original size. This approach presents the unseen evidence of human activity that often goes unseen.

Like many other environmental issues, plastic pollution is kept out of sight and therefore out of mind. The aim of this work is to expose the existence of synthetic materiality that can be found in every corner of the world. The Element of Humanity is a combination on of scientific fic discovery and contemporary still life documentary photography which pushes the perspective of the macro world to the naked eye and defines The Plastic Age era.

The work consists of the real plastic fragment and a magnified image, offering a visual display of its degradation on caused by natural forces such as erosion, climate and me. The narrative carried though this work reveals how nature reclaims the unnatural disposed by humans and sculpts it on its own terms. This creates an object that visually resembles something natural yet uncanny.

The interaction between the audience and the work calls for strategic confrontations regarding over consumption and inadequate waste management. The composition of this work is designed to be challenging to read, for viewers to stop for a minute and think about what is actually is that they are observing. An artificial product that once was abandoned and found its way back to our environments.