In Pozzi’s sculptures, viewers can make out everything from flip-flops, toothbrushes and eyeglasses, to microwaves, pails and shovels, and car keys. She didn’t lose her train of thought as she reached for the discarded food tray and pitched it in an adjacent recycling bin. The birds also often fatally mistake plastic trash for food, a label beside the sculpture notes.Īs she discussed the work, made completely out of trash that she and her team retrieved from West Coast beaches, Pozzi spotted litter on the ground nearby. “He’s very dignified like my dad,” Pozzi says of the puffin, who stands on a base of just the sort of entangled fishing gear that claims the lives of many ocean birds. She created the work the same year her father James died. Standing beside her several-times-life-sized sculpture “Sebastian James the Puffin,” one of 17 of her works installed at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, Angela Pozzi talked about the puffin’s namesake.
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