Emily's Ideas for Project 1

 Topics: 

- Consumerism 

- Poverty

- Landfills

- Food Excess (Waste)

- Politics (in general) 

 Concepts: 

- Mountain of Garbage: There's a pile of garbage and the American flag is at the top of the mountain while other countries flags are at the bottom, in the garbage. This signifies how as a country we have all this excess waste due to our consumeristic tendencies. The United States are the ones producing the garbage, but we ship the garbage out to third world countries to dispose of our garbage, espcially technology. 

- The Race to Consumerism: A race track from an aerial pov. World flags are acting as race cars with the US in the lead and Britain and other countries behind. There's a clock in the corner with the date the US became a country, 1776. The grass around the race track is brown and has garbage throughout it. This conveys the way the race to consumerism is destroying our planet.  

- What's Behind: The main focus is the White House. In front of the White House, there is garbage and signs of poverty. However, behind are signs of wealth. Congress sits on top of the wealth behind the White House. This work portrays how our government now functions. The people in the office are making a lot of money while the people they are supposed to be acting as public servants for are falling farther and farther behind. 

- A Future With Humans vs Without Humans: The world with humans has buildings, garbage, grey skies, and overall a dark, cool tone. The world without humans has animals walking through, overgrowing grass, and it is bright, colorful, warm toned.