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Animals As Makeup
Topic: Animal Cruelty & Factory Farming– lab animals are merely used as deposable tools. They are exposed to chemicals, drugs, toxins, and physical harm. Farm animals are considered commodities to be used for profit. Animal agriculture also... More
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Cigarettes As Air Pollutants
Topic: Air Pollutants & Global Warming Common Human Activity/Object: Smoking Synthesis: A factory is reimagined as a box of cigarettes where the butts are the smoke stacks, which is connoting the inhalation of greenhouse gasses. The ashtray is... More
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Consumerism As Resource Depletion
Topic: Resource Depletion & Overconsumption Common Human Activity/Object: Consumerism Synthesis: Reimagined as currency inside a wallet. The natural resources are being spent and used for human consumption due to their increasing demand.... More
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Glacier As Water Pitcher
Topic: Melting Polar Ice Caps – Glaciers store about 70% of the world’s fresh water. As these glaciers melt, we are losing fresh drinking water, the sea levels will rise, extreme weather events will increasingly transpire, and species will... More
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Oil Spills As Fish Food
Topic: Oil Spills – oceans and coastal waters are polluted by oil every day; oil spills, shipping, dumping, drains and sewage pipes. The toxic chemicals contaminate the aquatic ecosystems and are a danger to habitats and its marine life. Oil cannot... More
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Pencil Sharpener As Urbanization
Topic: Deforestation Common Human Activity/Object: Sharpening a pencil Synthesis: The pencil represents the forest/wood, sharpening the pencil represents urbanization, the pencil shavings become housing. Eventually the pencil will reach its end... More
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Pills As Animals
Topic: Exploitation of Animals & Poaching – poaching for traditional medicines is one of the major threats to endangered species. Despite existing legal prohibitions, the black market continues its illegal trade. Bone marrow, tusks, horns, scales,... More
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Razor As Deforestation
Topic: Deforestation Common Human Activity/Object: Shaving, hair removal Synthesis: Typically used for removing hair, the razor acts as a thresher to clear-cut the forest, resulting in dry skin and loss of moisture. Body hair is meant to retain... More
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Stove And Kettle As Global Warming
Topic: Global Warming & Climate Change Common Human Activity/Object: Heating food Synthesis: An ecosystem is placed within a heating appliance (kettle) to show the increasing temperature of the world’s atmosphere. A closed terrarium where smoke... More
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Suitcases As Landfills
Topic: Landfills, Land Pollution, and the Global Waste Trade Common Human Activity/Object: Over-packing & Travelling Synthesis: overfilling luggage shows the state of the earth’s land where we are disposing heavy and large amounts of waste... More
Work by
Ashley Mozo
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“"The Everyday" illustrates the repercussions of human activity and its impacts on the environment. It visualizes the destruction of the natural world synthesized with everyday objects to amplify the...” [More]