Assessment 2 concept statement
Art and design often explore relationships between humans and non-humans, the environment and ecology. How can contemporary art and design propose new possibilities for imagining the ‘human’ and the environment?
From the research the ecologies are divided into five stages, the first stage is soil, the second is plants, the third is herbivores, the fourth is the primary predator, the fifth is secondary predatory. In this assessment, I will continue and explore the relationship between the natural environment and the human. In this project, I based on the ecologies and plastic pollution. As we all know, the human lifestyle is related to the ecologies. People are always talking about recycling problem, with the rapid development of the social economy and the high concentration of urban population, the domestic garbage is gradually increasing, and the trash is surrounding our home. In the daily life, we are hard to avoid to use the plastic bag, plastic bottle and cosmetics packaging etc. Also, a large part of those consumables cannot recycle or reuse. It is a severe risk for the human, while the pollution is increasing the natural environment also changing. Some of the rubbish is non-degradable, if we incineration of garbage, it will release the toxic chemicals, that is one of the reasons carcinogenic and people easy to get sick. The other hand is water pollution. The amount of waste generated is increasing in the world every year, now is reaching 50 billion tons, that will require more land to heap up the waste. However, it needs a particular landfill to pile up the garbage, but it becomes more and more difficult to find the suitable landfills to use now. So the trash will pour into the ocean; moreover, it is harmful to the marine life, every year tens of thousand animals because of eating the plastic and the other waste that lead to death. Overall, many kinds of pollution are destroying the ecologies now; if the humans do not do any change, the natural environment will getting worse.
I have done three experiments in this assessment. The first experiment , I have collected many kinds of rubbish waste, such as cosmetic packaging, make-up pads, cotton tips, plastic bag, receipt, matches and hair band. After that, I made a waste sort. This experience aims to know what kind of consumables we are using every day. The second experiment is I collected the discard water bottles, and then pour all of the waste into the water bottles, to telling the audiences the environment not only facing plastic pollution also the has waste pollution. The third experiment is to go to the beach and the water bottle and other plastic utensils into the water, also, recorded the plastic waste always floating on the water.
I used photoshop to do my work. First, I took some photographs of the plastic waste in different places, beach and garden. After that, I used the photoshop to create the images as a filmstrip, because I wanted the project feels historical and looked like a documentary, recording the changing of the ecologies. I have done two series images; the first one was the origin, the other one has changed the colour at the edge of the images, it was a black and white, the centre of the images was colourful. Also, the layout of each photo was different; it looked Staggered together, it is looked like more connection with every picture, to tell the audiences the beach and the garden has a strong relationship with each other, they all came from the natural environment.
I enjoyed the process of this assessment, and know more the information about recycling the plastic and the other waste. Throughout the whole project, I found out the relationship between the human and ecologies, human always being dominated, and our action affecting the natural environment. Art primarily was the experiment of nature; the pollution problems found in human art was merely a derivative subset.
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