Armed with a growing collection of plastic debris gleaned from my local coastal environment, the archival, curatorial and photographic practices I have developed aim to explore the interplay between abject and object. Through this work, I am looking to find a new way of representing the items we throw away as a mirror to ourselves and our patterns of behaviour as consumers and human beings. Each individual object is a souvenir of an intimate human experience, a memory, a memento, or a reminder. The coastal foreshore is now littered with human desires, met and then forgotten; littered objects used and then discarded. With the plastic detritus mounting up on my desk, it became clear to me that while these objects reflected the abject consequences of individual consumer habits and desires, collectively, they speak to a broken system. They are our collective body of work.