Titled Plastic Ocean in honor of Charlie Moore's book The traveling art show using plastics collected from the open-ocean and mid-ocean islands started out as just a simple idea. Take the image of the Japanese art, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, and add the plastics I've collected from my research to illustrate what is now a very different ocean than what Katsushika Hokusai saw when he created his art less than 200 years ago. Not a very long time in planet years for humans to have physically…