Although I have previously mentioned the work that was involved in the making of Heavy footprints, and have discussed possible ideas of what to project onto the screens, I have realised that I have not spoken about what will be.
Only a select few have seen the footage so far, and it might need some alterations after assessment, but I decided to piece together various timelapse’s and slideshows which I believed would work well in relation with the lower section.
Having a representation of a ‘landfill’ at the base of the projection, I felt that agricultural land, and forests were a good subject for the screen, as it brought up idea’s of what could one day be passed on to the next generation, and what they might have to plant crops, or forest plantation on top of.
In order to make a comment on how society deals with waste materials, I also chose to visit the local waste disposal grounds, but after being refused permission for photography, I had to resort to operating from just outside the entrance.
Fortunatley for me, there were queues of vehicles waiting in in order to dispose their waste materials, so I took this opertunity to document this.
Whilst doing so, I realised that it was taking the vehicles longer to be able to dispose of green waste, than that of regular house waste. now this might not seem like an issue, but every engine was still running, and most of the time it was only a minimal amount that each vehicle was bringing.
It occurred to me, that most of these people who were bringing this green waste must have owned gardens/land/rented gardens, why weren’t they composting their green waste?
Surely it would make sense to avoid a trip to the dump, return some of the nutrients to their own soil, and not run their engines whilst waiting in line, adding to their carbon footprint.
Because I felt that this was related to the projection, I decided that it should become a part of the work.
