Too Much Stuff!
The second image is made by Poramit Thantapalit, and it is created with plastic bottles as well. Thantapalit stated, in their description, "My work gets inspired from the relationship and connection between humans, nature, and surrounding such as trees, flowers, the ocean, people and animals." Humankind leaves trash behind them everywhere they go. This artist recreated nature with plastic. 60-million plastic bottles are thrown away every day and most end up in our waterways. Hello, there professor! Thanks for stopping by! I am doing my best right now!!
Photography is a big part of showing evidence of showing the effects of pollution. "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power." This quote is from the reading On Photography by Susan Sontag. Photography is very important to the world because, with photography, you can photograph what the world currently looks like after being exposed to pollution for decades. There are people out there who do not believe in climate change and pollution. They need physical, hard evidence to see what we have done to the world. It is sad for that to be true, but it is true.
"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire." This quote is also from Susan Sontag. Though photography can capture a moment in time, it is not a statement about the world but a glimpse into reality. Hello, there professor! Thanks for stopping by! I am doing my best right now! Here we go!
How can the projects help illustrate some of the points we have been discussing media images, identity, consumerism, society, and value? For Donna Conklin King, they used concrete to make the plastic bottle coral reef. This can demonstrate that the waste we make can weigh heavily on those around us, meaning the ocean and forest life. It is a reality check that we have damaged this world and our trash can destroy the things around us. We have destroyed our coral reefs and replaced them with our plastic waste. Poramit Thantapalit, they used plastic bottles to recreate the nature that we have destroyed/replaced with plastic soda bottles. As the professor had stated, when we were in the gallery, if plastic and other harmful materials, that pollute our world, were more expensive then we would not have so much waste and the pollution world would not be this bad. Hello, there professor! Thanks for stopping by! I am doing my best right now! We’re halfway there! Living on a prayer! Oh! We’re halfway there! Thanks, Grammarly.
How does this exhibition draw attention to the argument around consumption? The gallery draws in the passerby’s attention because it is completely true that humankind buys too many things that we don’t need. Advertisement is a big reason why we have bought so many things. In The Interventionists: Trespassing Towards Relevance, they talk about advertising and how artists arranged the way things were said just so the product they want you to buy is subtle but upfront in one’s face. In movies or music videos, you see the main character/person using the product for a long enough length so that when people see their favorite role model use it, they want to use it. “…billboard manipulation where one modifies an advertisement to say what they like or to propose a radical alternative to its original intent.” Advertisement companies manipulate billboard ads just so they catch the attention of those going by and making them want the product. Advertisers will make advertisements that can “fix” the problems of many and make it all go away. They cannot do that and because of advertisements like this, we as consumers consume more things we do not need and, therefore, we create more waste and pollution. The more we consume and waste, the more factories companies create to make said products, which causes more pollution. We, consumers, have too much stuff! Just as the gallery and artists state with their displayed works, we need to slow down and fix what we started. Living on a prayer! Oh! We’re halfway there! Thanks for coming professor! Have a good day!
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