Abundant and cheap energy is what fuels overpopulation and sprawl. Consider a place where one can no longer send their waste to a dump or count on the prosthetic aides of industrial civilization but must find ways to accommodate his trash within his own personal habitat. Paving, urban sprawl, and overdevelopment have exhausted our resources to the point where our own human strength is the only energy available to power up what remains of our virtual worlds.
Wasteland attempts to show how a human habitat filled with non-recyclable and non-degradable material goods not only inexorably eliminates others and ultimately all life, but increases the artificial and cultural divide between humans and their biological environment.
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Abundant and cheap energy is what fuels overpopulation and sprawl. Consider a place where one can no longer send their waste to a dump or count on the prosthetic aides of industrial civilization but must find ways to accommodate his trash within his own personal habitat. Paving, urban sprawl, and overdevelopment have exhausted our resources to the point where our own human strength is the only energy available to power up what remains of our virtual worlds.
Wasteland attempts to show how a human habitat filled with non-recyclable and non-degradable material goods not only inexorably eliminates others and ultimately all life, but increases the artificial and cultural divide between humans and their biological environment.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2007
- Submitted to ArtBase: Sunday Feb 3rd, 2008
- Original Url: http://www.virginiavaldes.com/wasteland.php.html
- Permalink: http://www.virginiavaldes.com/wasteland.php.html
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Work Credits:
- Virginia Valdes, creator
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