I want my project to deal with our society’s large demand for energy and the method of mass production as a supply. I plan to create a stack of logs in order to represent wood as a natural resource that could be used for a source of energy. I will represent the worth of the logs as a form of energy by painting them gold and labeling them with barcodes. By displaying the logs as valuable, I hope to create a sense of irony within my work. I think it would be interesting to show the value of a natural resource by painting them gold, however it would be ironic because the plaster molds are actually useless as energy. While mass production seems like a good idea, it is impossible to mass produce a natural resource like wood.
This idea is inspired by a course that I am currently taking called Energy and Society which deals with natural resources and how our world deals with a bunch of issues involving our demand for resources.