Firstly, we’re on the verge of becoming swallowed up by our own greed and consumerist attitudes. Rubbish, is a major problem in todays society, the whole reuse, recycle and reduce headline has been well overspent. On the horizon, is a wave of trash that we will eventually consume us all.

It is therefore essential for us to develop a means of using trash as a way of symbolising our own consumerist attitudes. My practice, would involve building sculptures/installations from our own trash, which would allow us on a more personal level to understand just how much we use as a group or as an individual. We must consume less and live more! By taking all this trash, it is highly likely we could build from this a detailed image, which when produced would not only highlight our own downfalls, but on a wider scale, on an international level.

It’s a way of taking junk and creating a process which responds to our consumerist ideology, now this could be done as a community project, you could accumulate a months worth of trash and allow everyone to take part in creating a tall sculpture of a human being standing tall. As the light breaks, a shadow could be cast, now this could show how we’re being progressive in such dire times, but it also leaves room for us to question exactly what sort of future we want to have as the human species moves forward into climatic times.