I've finally found the enigmatic Garbage-Bag-Tree! It's located in my back yard and looks beautiful and poetic. The conflict between the artificial object and the natural setting is a pretty good metaphor for our consumerist culture. As natural humans we want to conserve the environment, but yet we rape our land and consume it as a resource. We make bags!
Garbage-Bag-Tree: Trees without leaves that seem to attract garbage bags that roost in their branches.
The Garbage-Bag-Tree itself is a delicate balance. The plastic bag is just hanging on by a thread. The bag is ready to dissapear.
Garbage-Bag-Trees - Sony DSC W120 enhanced in gimp.Bagfully yours,
Jarrett
Garbage-Bag-Trees - Sony DSC W120 enhanced in gimp.
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Wow. First thing that came to my mind: Nostalgic!
ReplyDeleteBut then that was the irony, as I realised moments later, that there's nothing nostalgic about the kind of ruthlessness we practice with our environment.
The statement you made "We make bags!" was a powerful way to bring the perception of such a common practice down to a deadly one. As in while we consume the nature to make bags, plastic shit, in the end, we will end up consuming ourselves, coz what goes around comes around.
Thinking of it as like a mouth going in a circular path gorging on whatever it finds and then in the end it eats itself.
Amazing shots. I mean, if the context is separated then the shots are beautiful. I love the slight effect you have applied to them.
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Nice.
Oh another interpretation:
ReplyDelete"Plastic and beauty."
It's like a new form of ruining a beautiful work (nature is a beautiful work of some powerful energy, don't you think?). Mix plastic in it and the job is done!
Off topic, this whole post reminds me f a comment a friend of mine once made upon being asked what cheese she would like on her sandwich at a fast food restaurant: "You said cheese? I don't eat plastic, sorry. So, no."
Food and nature, how different are they really? Not much I think.
It's a shame to leave this masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteWith it's gallery gods and it's garbage-bag trees.