Active Research
Bend
To Purify VS To Pollute
To Purify
To Pollute
FINAL PROJECT
Exploration of Richard Serra’s Verb List_ Actions to relate to ones self
To Pollute VS To Purify
Pollute:
- contaminate (water, air, or a place) with harmful or poisonous substances.
“the explosion polluted the town with dioxin”
- defile; corrupt.
“a society polluted by racism”
Purify:
- not mixed with anything else.
- clean and not harmful in any way.
- having a clear and smooth sound that is not mixed with any other sounds.
- having exactly the talents or skills needed for a particular role
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Derek Haffar
Integrative Studio 2
Summer
“To Pollute & To Pure” is the actions that I choose to depict. Personally, I feel the dramatic change of my surrounding environment. When I was a little, I lived in a small city, where very few people had hand phones or laptops at the time. Yet I still I a lot of fun with my friends, we came to a playground and made up games to play. We could also stay one place, and just sampling observing insects. Since high technology has madly developed, my live had completely changed. There are a few factories build up in my hometown, cars’ and factories’ waste are flying around the city, and sometime it is even hard to see pure sky. Many of my friends and relatives in China has healthy problem due to air pollution. Two years ago When China was facing the peak time of pollution problem, I could see dusk in the air, the sky was in blurry yellow. All of this led me to think why the environment is transforming like this? What can we do for this? I searched online and found out a documentary video directed by Jing Chai, who has searched plenty of reliable statistics and did active researched on this problem for many years, proved that the main problem comes from coal. Coal are commonly used in factories, and home to provide heat. But it produces large amount of CO2, which is much quicker than the environmental air purity system. For solutions, however, it seems easy to find the problem, but can hardly solve it. People thought about using big machines to purify air, but it causes energy waste. The only natural way I found that could cause fewer problems is plant. Cactus, one of the greatest plants that could purify air by absorbing CO2 and produce oxygen. Usually, most plants absorb CO2 in daytime and release CO2 at night. Yet, cactus is one of the kinds that absorb CO2 twenty-four hours and produce oxygen at the same time. Therefore, I decided to use cactus as the main factor to represent purify in my final work.
Firstly, I listed the scenes that I want to show in my project, there are five of them: factory waste, healthy problem, and cactus, photosynthesis that help cactus absorb CO2 and produce oxygen, purified air. Thus, I decided to make five box to reveal each scene, which could give viewer more space to concentrate on each of the step and carefully think about the process. The color of each boxes shows the process of air quality from polluted situation to the purified one.
The whole project is focusing on the process of one thing is being polluted and how it could be purified again. It is important to know the effect that pollution produce, but it is more vital to think of the way that how to purify it. The pollution is everywhere yet we don’t have good solutions for that. The tragedy is caused by human, and human would be the one to suffer it.
– 5 boxes for depicting each scene
The color of each box shows the process of air quality from polluted situation to the purified one.
factory waste
Factory waste is one of the most influential issue that causes environmental pollution.
– Factory Chimney (Wire:represent mechanical world )
– Cotton ( represent smoke)
– Pencil Power (represent carbon)
Polluted lung
Environmental pollution can result in health problem.
cactus
Cactus is a typical plant type that absorb CO2 twenty-four hours and provides O2 at the same time.
Clay model
– Flour & Green Tea (eco-friendly material. Green Tea is one of the species facing extinction problem due to pollution)
– Wire (thorn)
photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is the crucial chemical reaction part that help to create O2. This model is showing half of the cactus is absorbing CO2 ( the dried leaves indicates the harm of CO2), the other half of the cactus is releasing O2 ( with well grown grasses reveal the benefit that cactus bring to the environment).
purity
– According to research, “blue” represents purity.
Final Piece