Community Engagment + Art Project: Cacoon Transformation

Community Engagement + art Project: Cacoon Transformation

On April 16, 2016 there was a community engagement at Peck Road Watershed Park. The community engagement objective for the assignment was to help nature by taking away trash that has surfaced up or trash people have litter. We had to be at Peck Road Park at 9 and Kym Buzdygon will be there as well to give us further instructions. To add on, Kym had told us what we can and cannot collect. In addition, Kym gave us a piece of paper so we can have an estimation of what we have collected. After two hours cleaning up, the total amount of trash estimated and then calculated by Professor Garrett exceeded 1000. Thus saying, the people who litter or throw away trash does not have a lot of knowledge about where the trash goes other than it magically disappearing.

My art project is a cocoon. The cocoon consists of water bottle, cigarette, aluminum foil, straw, and candy wrapper. The water bottle is structure for trash to hold as the water bottle is underneath the aluminum foil. Cigarettes are wrapped around the aluminum foil to give a feeling as if it is big. Whereas candy wrapper and plastic are on the plastic bottle. The green straw beneath the water bottle was connected together and give off the impression for the straw to be connected to a branch. The other reason I choose the water bottle, cigarette, candy wrapper, and straw was we tend to see this in the ocean, at the park, and even on the streets. Also whenever I go outside of my house, I will always see the either of those. Sometimes those plastic and cigarettes accumulate as if nobody cares in my neighborhood. The aluminum foil is an object we tend to use for wrapping or cooking our food, afterward people throw it away. Even Jenny Price, author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A., implied her way of seeing nature is that we all see nature differently such as the materials. However, we are all using nature or have been around it. So, my audience is to the people who live in California. The message I am trying to send out is the trash will only keep on accumulating if we do not change ourselves. Also, the intended effect on the audience should be the “change”. The cocoon symbolizes us as to what we will become once we come out of the cocoon. Please think about where the trash will head to. Every small step will lead to a bigger step. 

Bibliography

Price,Jenny. “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Believer., April 2016. Web. 15 May 2016.            <http://www.believermag.com/issues/200604/?read=article_price>.