Not every school is lucky enough to be in a bustling city like mine. Even fewer are able to boast that on their campus lies an art museum that brings in world-famous artists. But then again, College of Charleston isn't your typical college.

This past week, a new exhibition has opened at The Halsey Art Gallery on The College of Charleston campus. It has a unique focus, to bring awareness to the abuse humans do to the earth and all of the plastic that ends up in our oceans.

Two artists contributed to this exhibit: Aurora Robson and Chris Jordan.

Aurora Robson has lived all over the world, Hawaii, Canada, and now New York. She used to be a welder which you can see in the way her art is made of plastic trash welded together to make a beautiful installation.

The installation includes tide bottles, water bottles, and various forms of plastic all in different shades of warm colors. It has no defined shape, but in many ways, it looks like a fish. The way that it hangs from the ceiling and the gentle A.C. that flows through the room makes the fish move and flow like the ocean.

There are also lights included in the installation that flicker like the way light scatters through the water. Not only did she create this installation to raise awareness for the harm we are committing to the Earth, but also to encourage students to do the same. She created the foundation called Project Vortex where she travels to colleges and encourages students to make small sculptures out of pieces of trash and display them and possibly sell them.

Chris Jordan is a very different kind of artist, as he is a photographer and not a sculptor. He focuses a lot of his work on the birds that habitat Midway Island.

These birds, called albatrosses, find small pieces of plastic and think they are food and feed it to their young. These pieces of plastic get stuck in the bird's stomachs and end up killing them. He made a photo collage of the dead birds and the plastics in their stomachs.

Another piece of art he created is based on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. However, it was made out of 240,000 pictures of plastic bags, which happens to be the amount of plastic bags that are used around the world every 10 seconds.

There is one other difference between Botticelli's work and Jordan's, as Jordan's includes a teardrop on Venus's face. Jordan's goal is similar to the one of Robson's, he wants to show us something that we normally would not be able to see and make a visual for science.

So if you haven't seen this new exhibit yet, you need to get going now.