Liz Larner is also very good at making us notice things. Her new piece Meerschaum Drift at Regen Projects as part of her When Stars and Seas Collide show reminded me of a beach I once visited at the vortex of the Gulf of Mexico and ocean waters. Almost like a magnet, the shoreline seemed to pull every piece of plastic detritus that was in a 50 mile radius. Discarded plastic containers of all kinds, tires, flotsam and jetsam were not well organized the way Larner’s plastic bottles are, and the lurching sensation I had in my stomach lasted all day. The owners apparently never bothered to clean it up because tons would just reappear the next day. Every time I use anything in plastic now—which is seemingly everything sold— I feel guilty. I’ve begun looking for only glass or paper storage. But hardly anything is now stored that way. Remember The Graduate and Mr Robinson’s famous advice for Benjamin-the Dustin Hoffman character- to go into ‘plastics’ ? That was only in 1967.