artist statement

Recycling is one of the best ways for you to have a positive visible impact on the world in which we live. Recycling is not only important to the environment, but it is important to all of us. The city of Tucson does not play an active role in recycling and this left our group wanting to see change starting at the community level. In order to see improvement, one must start at the community level, and then move further to the state level. There needs to be an act of change immediately in the city of Tucson. The amount of waste we create is increasing all the time. Make it your personal goal to see that your state not only stacks up, but surpasses other states in recycling trends.

We used photography as a means of raising awareness- we took pictures for those around us to become educated on the lack of recycling in the city of Tucson. Our plan is to open the eyes of those around us to view an unexplored world, understand new meanings to the impact of recycling.

Our choice of subject is centered on the experience of living in a big city that does not recycle. After photographing the city of Tucson we were initially left disappointed, the photos didn't seem to speak to us, or carry the message we wanted to portray to our audience. We then further looked at our images and realized by cropping our photos allowed us to focus in on the smaller picture. We wanted to form stories through our photographs that are not at first obvious. Our goal is to have our audience view our images and then created their own personal understanding of what this image means to them, and essentially what recycling means to them as a whole. We have chosen to present questions and statistics in order to get an individual to stop and consider his or her own contributions when it comes to the issue of recycling.

We chose to crop our photos because we want our viewers to focus on the issue at hand, and eliminate distractions. We want the photo to consume our viewers. By cropping the photos it can all for further interpretation of what the full image could have been.