Darian Mederos work focuses on painting the all over the human face. He paints bubble wrap over the subjects face which reflects light and distorts the underlying image. He uses the thing layer of translucent bubble wrap to make the viewers reflect and care about the protection of the subject. The subject in this image is a middle age women which can relate to Anthropocene as it can show the older generation and how the human waste has affected them and how they have seen the drastic change in the environment and the earth over their lifetime. This can be more effective to the viewer as it feels like she was chosen for a reason and she is wiser and has more experience with this situation.
The bubble wrap also creates repetition within the image and blurs the models face. The repetition can show that this problem with the plastic in the ocean keeps occurring and isn’t changing or getting better. It can also show that their is an increasing amount of plastic waste and that there is a huge amount of waste that is impacting on our environment the way the bubble wrap impacts the models face.