LEIGHTON - BRIEF

The Drop: Causes the viewer to question how they are polluting the oceans, in light of oil and power usage. The artifact consists of a metal chain which is pulled, it then releases the drop which hits a sensor and releases red LED lights.

The Ocean covers more than 70% of our Earth and provides weather, clean air, and provides food for the world. However, 706 million gallons of waste oil enters the ocean each year. When the oil first enters the ocean it spreads in the water and depending on the conditions, waves will move it throughout. The oil waste poisons sensitive marine life which interrupts the food chain which fish and other animals depend on. Finally, we are a large contributor to this problem because, in 2017, we used 7.28 billion gallons of oil, which is around 20 million barrels of oil per day. The Drop provides an abstract representation of the harm the human race is doing to the Ocean.

Composed using LED lights to create a ripple effect, the Drop represents how just “one drop” of oil will affect the lives of marine life. The viewer will interact with the artifact by releasing the chain which will allow the drop to hit the sensor and turn the beautiful blue lights to red. The acrylic box the lights are in cause them to reflect up and appear as a ripple. They are originally blue to represent what was once a clean ocean and then turns to red once the oil strikes. This portrays the damage people are doing to their oceans by being consumers, using gas, power, and pollution.

ALEX - BRIEF

It is estimated that 1.3 million gallons of oil is spilled into the ocean each year; Drip is a conceptual art piece that is designed to raise awareness about oil that annually enters the ocean through spills. The design is made out of plexiglass, which is sanded, to mimic the blurry ocean. A strand of LED lights arranged in the shape of a wave is attached beneath the first layer of plexiglass to show how one drop of oil can cause a long ripple of damage upon the ocean. This is an art piece that represents how everyday life leaves a long-lasting carbon footprint on the ocean; slowly damaging the habitat of marine life.

Crude oil is essential for many industries that rely on an endless demand for power for their electronic machines. In an effort to profit from consumers, many industries fail to acknowledge the immense impact on other species around them. The piece is not confined to a demographic; instead, Drip aims to raise awareness, among all consumers about the immense amount of oil spilled into our ocean and their responsibility for the damage it causes. 

A realistic diorama that shows a flooded town or city to show vividly the disastrous consequences of rising sea levels. The idea of the project is to make a surrealist piece of art that shows a high level of water explaining that sea level rise has a least caused problems for the people who lived in the area it illustrates.
Sea levels have risen over 8 inches in Massachusetts since 1950, and global warming is the problem, we chose the name Blame The Cow because cow is the number one producers of methane gas.  Blame The Cow makes the consequences of rising sea levels vivid. In this small, intimate diorama that shows a high level of water explaining that sea level rise has a least caused problems for the people who lived in the area it illustrates. The scene shows of a flooded area, likely portraying a part some coastal town or city made of materials with diverse textures and colors, for realism, only fragments of the town are visible; the rest is depicted as underwater with waves washing along remaining protruding marks of humanity. In the diorama, which shows how much the water level has been elevated due to climate change that the water level is quite higher than it once was. The things that are The visible fragments in the miniature landscape, made of materials with diverse textures and colors for realism, included are include a tree and the roof of a house and a tree, on the top of the house in which a cow is stranded. The cow is meant to show that people in rural areas are also affected, and also as a reminder which shows how not just the people who lived in the city were affected. The cow is also meant to hint at the fact that cows are one of the biggest producers of greenhouse gases, as well as this they take up tons of space and trees are usually cut down for this space, which in turn causes the world atmosphere and oceans to heat up, which in turn causes the ice caps to melt causing and the sea level to rise.
By making this connection apparent through a vivid scene that viewers can relate to, Blame The Cow hopes to inspire viewers to advocate for broad policy changes favoring renewable energy over fossil fuels. The project attempts to engage with everyone showing a scene of wreckage caused by sea level rise which is something people are directly connected to. By showing this scenario, we are hoping to make people see how we damage the earth and find a way to stop. The diagram is made of many materials using textures and colors to make the miniature landscape realistic. The interaction with the project is mainly through sight precooking thought. When people turn poles on the outside of the box, they as a person cause waves moving and breaking to move and destroy the house and cow.