Earth Stories
The
Studio Art Quilt Associates show,
Earth Stories, opens today at the
University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art and Design, Warrensburg, Missouri, January 19 - February 28, 2015.
There are many stories of hope across the globe. Both individuals and small groups are working on projects that, when added together, make a positive impact on increasing the quality of life on this planet. Earth Stories celebrates the stories of people or projects that enhance the planet, make a significant difference in restoring and/or protecting the environment, increase sustainability and otherwise improve the earth we all occupy.
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| Crowded House |
Inspired by Annie Lennox at The Story of Stuff, I created my pieces for the exhibit to start a dialogue about over-consumerism. On a personal level, I have too much
stuff. I am in conflict because I value a simple lifestyle, so I decided to count
all the objects in my house. It took me 6 months. The larger piece is called
Crowded House, and is a testimony to too much stuff, as it spills out
of the confines of the edges of my house. And it has the Number...the ginormous number of objects in my house.
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| Crowded House - detail | | | |
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The second piece is called Manufactured Demand. The smaller piece is a tribute to
a few of the many brands of bottled water and the trash resulting from it. And as the title implies, advertising has convinced us that we need bottled water...in order to make a profit, at the expense of wasting huge amounts of petroleum, both in making the bottles for the water and transporting it to all the grocery stores, often for a resource that comes to us mostly free right out of our taps.
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| Manufactured Demand |
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To see more of my project, use the link "Earth Stories" in the sidebar under "Labels", or go
here.
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