Marcel Winatschek

Don’t Fuck The Ocean

The Lion King taught me that life is a circle. You throw a plastic bag in a bin, it ends up in the Indian Ocean, and from there it becomes a dildo.

A Brazilian ad agency and MTV actually did this—took all the plastic garbage floating in the world’s oceans, the orphaned Barbies and phone cases and cola bottles, and turned it into colorful sex toys. It sounds like parody until you remember how much plastic is actually out there.

The weird part is thinking about where it came from while you’re using it. This rainbow thing could be made from an old toy, a yoga mat, old phones, maybe garbage I threw away myself years ago. But there’s something perfect about the absurdity. If I’m already complicit in destroying the ocean, I might as well get some pleasure out of it.